107 Quotes by Amélie Nothomb

God isn’t chocolate, he’s the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

Because we don’t have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

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.

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.

When I want to be incognito, I don’t wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

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

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

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.'