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“When I want to be incognito, I dont wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.”
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“When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

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“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.”

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“More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.”

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“I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.”

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“It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.”

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“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

“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.”

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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.'

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The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

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“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”

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“If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.”

— Amelie Nothomb

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