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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: April 13th, 1940

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