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Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano
French Novelist
Born: Jul 30, 1945
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Related authors: Anatole France Andre Gide Antoine de Saint-Exupery George Sand Gustave Flaubert Honore de Balzac Marquis de Sade Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. Patrick Modiano
Writer Writes Blind Always Little
Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going. Patrick Modiano
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. Patrick Modiano
Me Think Else Some Writer Know Became Because Childhood Maybe Influenced Anything Anything Else Incident
I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold. Patrick Modiano
You Writing Water Pool Swimming Difficult Too Cold Dream Like Because Around Jump Quickly Walking Get Want Realised Create Novel Swimming Pool Started
Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating. Patrick Modiano
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I always have the impression that I write the same book. Patrick Modiano
Book Write Always Impression Same
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread. Patrick Modiano
Day Every Day Writing Try Lose Every Possible Find Thread Write Over Because Get Painful Fast
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. Patrick Modiano
Own Syntax Paragraph Superfluous Except Never He Occasional Reader His Errors Repetitions Manuscript Novelist
Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. Patrick Modiano
You Age Digital Before Digital Age Way Bit Visible Photograph Photographs Darkroom Similar Something Through Takes Developing Between Read Reader Became Printed Chemical Did Same Happens Process Place Which Your Novel
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that. Patrick Modiano
You Writing Beginning Young Constraint Lay Writer Beyond Powers Sort Very Pitiable Experienced Heavy Bare Means Your Things Starting
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born. Patrick Modiano
Time Born Determined Were End In The End Place Which
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. Patrick Modiano
Me Try Find More Remain Mysterious Mystery Obscure None Interest Even Things
I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one. Patrick Modiano
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