Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 28 March 1960) 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. Read full biography of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt →
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... →
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.
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.
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.... →
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... →
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are... →
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... →
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... →
Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.
I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.
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.
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... →
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 28 March 1960) 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.