Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt — Belgian Dramatist born on March 28, 1960,

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 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... (wikipedia)

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

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 road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

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. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

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 a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

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