Quotes by : Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself.....

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery....

He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer....

Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is....

Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right....

I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all.....

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen....

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as....