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On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. — Patrick Modiano

I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling, — Patrick Modiano

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference ... You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ... — Patrick Modiano

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth. — Patrick Modiano

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them. — Patrick Modiano

And then the next fifteen years fell apart: a few blurry faces, a few vague memories, ashes... — Patrick Modiano

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The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I? — Patrick Modiano

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. — Patrick Modiano

It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his shoulders. — Patrick Modiano

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality... — Patrick Modiano

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born. — Patrick Modiano

A man without scenery is completely disarmed. — Patrick Modiano

In those days, I thought I was happy. — Patrick Modiano

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen to
a man: several women turned round as he passed them. — Patrick Modiano

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. — Patrick Modiano

On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents. — Patrick Modiano

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly. — Patrick Modiano

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. — Patrick Modiano

I always have the impression that I write the same book. — Patrick Modiano

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. — Patrick Modiano

She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late? — Patrick Modiano

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain — Patrick Modiano

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family. — Patrick Modiano

The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none. — Patrick Modiano

One has to be aware of so-called witnesses. — Patrick Modiano

One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions. — Patrick Modiano

People don't come back any more. Haven't you noticed that, Monsieur? — Patrick Modiano

People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate. — Patrick Modiano

One has to retire eventually, Guy. — Patrick Modiano

All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me. — Patrick Modiano

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past. — Patrick Modiano

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect. — Patrick Modiano

After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass. — Patrick Modiano