The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
More Quotes by Tatiana de Rosnay
Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.