Writing is a struggle against silence.

The line frames writing not as effortless expression but as resistance—an active contest with absence. “Silence” can mean external suppression (censorship, fear, social taboo) and internal muteness (trauma, uncertainty, the inarticulate). To write is to force meaning into being where there is none, to make experience communicable and therefore shareable, debatable, and memorable. The word “struggle” emphasizes labor and risk: language is inadequate, memory is unstable, and power often prefers quiet. Fuentes’s formulation thus elevates literature into a civic and existential practice—an attempt to prevent lives, histories, and truths from disappearing into forgetfulness.