- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
- Civilisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020