"Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which……" — Amelie Nothomb
"Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that."
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17 Quotes by Amelie Nothomb
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Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line…
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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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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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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene…
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