Quotes by Jean-Pierre Richard

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Generally at the present moment we all agree to recognize in literature a function and certain powers that go far beyond its old role of entertainment, glorification or ornament. We like to see in it an expression of the choices, obsessions and issues at the heart of personal existence…

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In short, literary creation appears to us from now on as an experience, or even as a self-practice, as an exercise of apprehension and genesis during which a writer tries to understand himself and at the same time to build himself.

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Elaborating a great literary work is nothing more than discovering a true perspective on yourself, on life, on people. And literature is an adventure of being.