Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and univers…

- Annie Ernaux

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

- Annie Ernaux

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--fro…

- Annie Ernaux