"If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening," says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the speech he delivered after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023. When he writes, Fosse explains that he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With respect and humility, Fosse records his relationship with writing and celebrates the ability of language to embrace the mystery, complexity, and existential uncertainty of the human experience. "It is only in the silence that you can hear God’s voice," he says, offering a key to his favorite works of drama and fiction. "Maybe."