Amelie Nothomb Amelie Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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.