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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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Item
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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Belonging
France
Bubble
French
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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Familiar
Small Talk
Closer
Literary
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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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Led
Readers
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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.
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Book
Enjoy
Beginning
Foreign
Foreign Country
New Book
New Place
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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.
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Influence
Mexican
Thai
French
Mainly
Mixed
Nigerian
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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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Philosopher
Novelist
Spoken
Technician
Writes
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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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History
Extraordinary
Humanity
Invention
Language
Share
Most
Before
Came
Possible
Makes
The History Of
Which
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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.
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A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
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Best Way
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Prophet
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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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Accuracy
Circumstances
Mere
Starting Point
Examine
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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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Creators
Images
Invent
Novelist
We Cannot
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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.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Prosperity
Return
Sugar
Wartime
Hidden
Industrial
Plantation
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I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
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Fluent
Languages
Correct
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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.
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Abuse
Civilisation
Contradiction
Generations
Idealistic
Fight Me Better
Better Fight Me
Fed
Morals
Root
Slaves
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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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Witness
Bear
Better World
Hearts
Inventions
Prepare
Such A Way
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