# Quote — André Brink, The Other Side Of Silence

> [t]hrough perceiving the world as a story to be told and endlessly reshaped, I would argue, the reader is actually encouraged to act upon the world (..) literature becomes more, not less, potent

- Author: [André Brink](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-brink.md)
- Book: [The Other Side Of Silence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-brink/the-other-side-of-silence.md)
- Page: 14
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Brink#The_Other_Side_of_Silence_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-brink/the-other-side-of-silence/t-hrough-perceiving-the

## More from this book

> Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-brink/the-other-side-of-silence/attempt-to-grasp.md)

> Violence our language. A land hostile, empty, strange: it does not talk back, remains inaccessible. Which forces this violence from us,its motive achingly pure. On and one we move through the evermore arid landscape, sowing destruction as we go (....) An orgy of blood (...) with the single purpose of leaving on that virgin barren place the scrawl of our progress. We were here to acquire, to conquer, to have, to possess: I have therefore I am. Land, you are woman. Woman, you are mine.

p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-brink/the-other-side-of-silence/violence-our-language.md)

> Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-brink/the-other-side-of-silence/specific-silences-imposed.md)