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Everyone asks me, ‘Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?’ but when I’m alone in my office, I’m not like, ‘OK I’m going to shock.’ I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don’t understand.

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Leila Slimani

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When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child – discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

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My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character’s mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well – the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it’s hard to tell who came up with the line.

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May 5, 2024

My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character’s mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well – the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it’s hard to tell who came up with the line.

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May 5, 2024

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child – discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

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