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“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

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Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted…

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On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage…

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“For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of…

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Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the…

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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

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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…

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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…

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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

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A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

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I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

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