“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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