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Amelie Nothomb [1966-0] Belgian

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Baroness Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.

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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.		101
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.		102
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.		103
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.	Imagination	104
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.		105
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.		106
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.		107
When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.		108
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.		109
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.		110
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.'		111

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