Quotes by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

About Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt:

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a French and Belgian dramatist, novelist, fiction writer and film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
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El hombre se pasa la vida en dos sitios solamente: en su cama y en sus zapatos.

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You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

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In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the ...

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Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

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I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It'...

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When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one day, I'm afraid of losing the book and losing the energy.

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I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues.

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I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

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I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

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I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

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Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

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I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I st...

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Je voudrais te rejoindre dans l'idéal d'un art simple, accessible, qui charme d'abord, bouleverse ensuite. Comme toi, je crois que la science, le métier, l'érudition, la virtuosité technique doivent disparaître sous l'apparence d'un naturel aima...

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Le mal est un mystère plus profond que le bien car, dans le bien, il y a une lumière, un dynamisme, une affirmation de la vie. Comment peut-on choisir l'obscur.

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I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as ...

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I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

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I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

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I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

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Author Bio

  • NameEric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • AliasesEric-Emmanuel Schmitt; Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
  • BornMarch 28, 1960
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Literary Historian; Writer
  • WorksOscar And The Lady In Pink;
  • AwardsChevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?