“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles were vultures wheeling around the sun. The vultures disappeared, to be replaced by checkers squares ready to be… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“La nuit, tout sent bon", disait Mondo. "C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas", disait Thi Chin. "on sent mieux, et on entend mieux quand… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth,… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles were vultures… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“The non-stop music wrapped a warm cocoon around her body. People's thoughts, rapid words flowed around her, without doing her any harm. She was… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart from… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be something quite… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me. I have… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication. — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“From his beach bag the man took an old penknife with a red handle and began to etch the signs of the letters onto… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
“Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share
