Zitat des Tages von Patrick Modiano:
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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.
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
