Phrase by 'Patrick Modiano'
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistMe , Mystery , Try , Mysterious
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.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistYou , Day , Path , Keep Going
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.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistYou , Walking , Water , Swimming
I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistMe , Heart , Identity , Past
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistMe , Know , Think , Childhood
A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistMe , Myself , Work , Body
When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistTime , Day , Morning , I Can
Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistNever , Writing , Obstacles , Hard
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.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistBack , Like , Space , How
For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
Author: Patrick Modiano - French NovelistTime , Long , Free , Long Time
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