--- title: "5 Annie Ernaux Quotes - Famous Writer" description: "French writer (born 1940)... | Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature \"for the courage and c..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b040/author-annie-ernaux-33839.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Annie Ernaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b040/author-annie-ernaux-33839.jpg) # Annie Ernaux (1940) Writer **5** quotes in **43** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Annie Ernaux is a writer. ## Quick Facts About Annie Ernaux Born September 1, 1940 Profession Writer ## About Annie Ernaux French writer (born 1940)... \| Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links w ## Quotes by Annie Ernaux > [Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-ernaux/naturally-i-feel-no-shame-in-writing-these-things-because-of-the-time/) [Annie Ernaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-ernaux/) [Accidents](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accidents/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/567/annie-ernaux-33839_accidents_naturally-i-feel-no-shame-in-writing-the_19319.jpg) > [“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-ernaux/where-are-the-eyes-of-my-childhood-those-fearful-eyes-she-had-thirty/) [Annie Ernaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-ernaux/) [Aging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aging/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/annie-ernaux-33839_aging_where-are-the-eyes-of-my-childhood-those_480887.png) > [“From then on, that Sunday was like a veil that came between me and everything I did. I would play, I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-ernaux/from-then-on-that-sunday-was-like-a-veil-that-came-between-me-and/) [Annie Ernaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-ernaux/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a0/annie-ernaux-33839_children_from-then-on-that-sunday-was-like-a-veil_614654.png) > [She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-ernaux/she-teaches-me-that-the-world-is-made-to-be-pounced-on-and-enjoyed/) [Annie Ernaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-ernaux/) [Made](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/made/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/annie-ernaux-33839_made_she-teaches-me-that-the-world-is-made-to_993912.png) > [Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-ernaux/maybe-the-true-purpose-of-my-life-is-for-my-body-my-sensations-and-my/) [Annie Ernaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-ernaux/) [Body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/annie-ernaux-33839_body_maybe-the-true-purpose-of-my-life-is-for_1822319.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-ernaux/#itemlist", "name": "Annie Ernaux Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. 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