Amelie Nothomb Quotes

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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 in a song by Georges…
• I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
• More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
• 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. Either it works straight away,…
• I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
• 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 me.
• 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…
• When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.
• When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
• I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only…
• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't…
• Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write…
• God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
• 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 real…
• Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou
• Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.
• Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

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