Amelie Nothomb
Amelie Nothomb
Baroness Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 July 1966
CountryBelgium
years giving together
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.
purpose photograph felt
The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.
country song stupid
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' 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.
born develops excellent life paranoid understand
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.
real evil gold
It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.
book writing thinking
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.