Amelie Nothomb Quotes

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

Amelie Nothomb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: belgian
  • Birth: July 9, 1966

Topics

TimeWriteNeedHungryVery

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Max Jacob

WorkStrengthRealityEnoughSincere

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

Anna Louise Strong

BrotherWorldChanceSeeingMy Own

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.

Matt Haig

LiveCultureAimLovelyWhereWould

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Stephen Baker

PositiveNowSayListenYearsKids

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.

Tracy Chapman

PurposeWorldThinkLovedFeelWay

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Tony Kushner

BeautyAccomplishmentBetterWayWho

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

Lisa Guerrero

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I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

Dick Schaap

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I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

Douglas Coupland

TimeMeRoadAppreciateGlassMore

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

FuturePastBelieveI BelieveGate

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

Wiz Khalifa

MeBrandImportantNames

I've always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn't a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with - friends I brought in with me - are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That's why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.

Pusha T

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