“La nuit, tout sent bon", disait Mondo. "C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas", disait Thi Chin. "on sent mieux, et on entend… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Feeling Copy Share Image
“All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Language Copy Share Image
“Looking at the sky, he suddenly saw that it had become black. Then white again, but with great rippling circles. The circles… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Checkers Copy Share Image
“The non-stop music wrapped a warm cocoon around her body. People's thoughts, rapid words flowed around her, without doing her any harm.… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Music Copy Share Image
“He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others,… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Books Copy Share Image
“The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Alien Copy Share Image
“Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Ask questions Copy Share Image
“Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Lying Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me.… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Adventure Copy Share Image
One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication. — J.M.G. Le Clézio Alphabet Copy Share Image
“I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Book Copy Share Image
“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Fabulous Copy Share Image
“From his beach bag the man took an old penknife with a red handle and began to etch the signs of the… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Alphabet Copy Share Image
“Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Time Copy Share Image
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Desert Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself. It would be easier to imagine… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Self -awareness Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Books Copy Share Image
“You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Man Copy Share Image
“Out there, in the open desert, men can walk for days without passing a single house, seeing a well, for the desert… — j.m.g. le clezio Deal With The Devil Copy Share Image
“Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Horror Copy Share Image
