Amelie Nothomb
Amelie Nothomb
Baroness Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 July 1966
CountryBelgium
appreciate chocolate encounters
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
writing needs amelie
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
president amelie winner
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
writing views amelie
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.
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.
paris want hats
When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.
vanity needs amelie
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
mirrors delight losing
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.
way evening strange
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.
firsts movement instinct
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.
where-you-come amelie fine
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
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.
memories writing boys
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.
amour
Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou