Abigail Mandlin

“Because Roland Barthes said it all, didn't he, when he coined the phrase "death of the author"? When you die--physically or metaphorically--the story is out of your hands.

No matter how you write something--to what insane, detailed, meticulous degree--you cannot control the mind of your reader, nor your reader's interpretation.

One masterpiece to you might read like drivel to the next.

And so we must come to terms with the fact that the story will never be complete nor perfect. no matter how much we work our fingers to the bone or allow our backs to bend under the incredible weight of possibility, potentiality.

Art is art is art.

What will be will be will be will be.”
― Abigail Mandlin, Muses