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 about that.’ Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
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, or it won’t ever work. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
When I want to be incognito, I don’t wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
More and more I understand that it’s very fine not to know where you come from. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don’t understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
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 eat in the evening. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
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 know at all what this great thing would become. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. Amelie Nothomb Read Quote
