"Definitely. More and more I understand that it's……" — Amelie Nothomb
"Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction."
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Amelie Nothomb
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17 Quotes by Amelie Nothomb
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I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
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More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
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I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct.…
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I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
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It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then…
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Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking…
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When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me…
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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
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I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy…
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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was…
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Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them…
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God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
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