Fiction Quote by Patrick Modiano Download Open image “That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.” — Patrick Modiano ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Miracle Miracles Moments Time Use Youth
My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing. — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill… — Abbey Clancy Copy Share Image
“The key to faking deaths is a fine appreciation of arterial spray patterns. I have found that blood bags work very well at simulating… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive… — Rachel Bilson Copy Share Image
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I clip hand sanitizer to my purse. I used to be a babysitter back in the day, so I got germaphobic. — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
I like to keep my daily fragrance light - I just walk through a few sprays. — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
“The air is saturated with the stink of perfumes at war. There are video screens on which flawless complexions turn, preen, sigh through their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
“For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image