Writer Quotes by Amelie Nothomb

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

— Amelie Nothomb

“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were…

— Amélie Nothomb

“I glanced at the contents of what I was photocopying. They were the rules of the golf club of which Mister Saito was a…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Principio según el cual una persona que me había enseñado a atarme los cordones de los zapatos no podía decir cualquier cosa”

— Amélie Nothomb

“As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't the ideal…

— Amélie Nothomb

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of…

— Amelie Nothomb

“I have a Ph.D. in masturbation.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

— Amelie Nothomb

Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I…

— Amelie Nothomb

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

— Amelie Nothomb

It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with…

— Amelie Nothomb

“War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test. I think…

— Amélie Nothomb

“Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time…

— Amélie Nothomb

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to…

— Amelie Nothomb