Amelie Nothomb quotes

Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer acclaimed for her unique and prolific contributions to contemporary literature. Her novels often explore themes of identity, alienation, and cultural encounters. She has received numerous literary awards and enjoys a devoted international readership. Here are 14 of her quotes:

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. (Amelie Nothomb)

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

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

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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

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

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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)

Son intelligence rendait sa splendeur encore plus terrifiante.

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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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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

Amelie Nothomb

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Occupation: Belgian Writer
Born: July 9, 1966
Quotes count: 14
Wikipedia: Amelie Nothomb

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