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Anne Sylvestre on writing songs, vital for her

Publication date 26/12/1986 From €100.00

How to write

Interviewed, singer Anne SYLVESTRE talks about the writing of songs and the vital imperative of writing them: "...sometimes, the starting level, the starting idea, is that really, one sings and writes especially, because otherwise one will die, but really die (...) writing is not just something that helps to live, but helps not to die".

Writing songs: the anguish of the blank page

Publication date 26/12/1986 From €100.00

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In turn, Pierre PERRET, Guy BÉART and Anne Sylvestre talk about the blank page when writing a song. About his song "Feuille blanche", Pierre PERRET explains: "It must have been after a period of four or five days, in front of a no man’s land, all the white leaves, nothing, nothing that came out of the lemon, it was absolutely abominable". For Guy Béart the opposite happens: "They come too many words to me, I throw a lot of words that come to me and I write all the time...".

Nathalie Sarraute : la recherche des mots

Publication date 26/10/1995 From €100.00

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Interviewée sur son travail d'écriture, l'écrivaine Nathalie Sarraute dit du manque d'inspiration : "Eh bien j'attends, je ne fais rien d'autre. C'est toujours le matin, alors que j'ai travaillé des quantités de matinées où je ne trouvais rien, sans quoi j'en aurais écrit d'avantage".

Raymond Devos and Pierre Daninos on writing

Publication date 16/11/1969 From €100.00

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Raymond DEVOS and Pierre DANINOS discuss the difficulty of writing. Raymond DEVOS explains: "Either it comes to you right away and then it’s a gift from heaven, it’s merveileux, the sentence, the word of mind during a conversation, or else it’s laborious, you have to work them, take them back, crush them, reverse the words, look for them. So this is quite painful I think ...".

Françoise Sagan : écrire dans l'urgence

Publication date 26/06/1992 From €100.00

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Bernard Rapp receives the writer Françoise SAGAN to talk about her book "Répliques". About the emergency to write, she says: "There is a moral emergency, do nothing, we wandered around, we are strictly ordered this to the dogs and we feel the need to have a spine (...) there is also a physical and material emergency, when we have people who come to put things in your house, Bailiffs of things like that".

François Mitterrand : écrire "C'est difficile, c'est dur"

Publication date 15/09/1978 From €100.00

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Bernard Pivot receives François MITTERRAND to talk about his book "L'Abeille et l'architecte". Interviewed about his writing style, François MITTERRAND replied: "I cross out a lot, I am not one of those who write admirable pages with a jet, I do not know if I write admirable pages but I still suffer a lot".

Charles Aznavour on writing songs

Publication date 19/11/1967 From €100.00

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Interviewed, Charles AZNAVOUR explains how he writes a song: "...I don’t believe so much in inspiration...I think that we go home and think, I have to write a song and we suffer on the song until it is finished".

Louis Chedid on the difficulty of writing

Publication date 26/12/1986 From €100.00

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Interviewed, singer Louis CHEDID talks about the difference between writing a book and writing a song. He evokes the manuscripts of his mother, the writer Andrée Chédid and the difficulty of writing a book: "...writing a book is wisdom and a terrible discipline, I hope I will one day have it, I really want to write a book, but you have to put yourself in conditions, I suffer so much to make a song already...".

Léopold Sédar Senghor: his influences

Publication date 21/07/1963 From €100.00

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Interviewed, writer, poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor lists his literary influences. It evokes that of the surrealists, of Péguy, of Claudel... But of the most important influence for him, he said: "...the greatest influence that I suffered despite everything, was the influence of the popular poets of my country, of my homeland, the influence of the poets gymniques sérères".

Georges Brassens on writing poems

Publication date 21/09/1963 From €100.00

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Interviewed on the writing of his texts, Georges BRASSENS explains: "I repeat, I ruminate my text until it wearies me, until I see holes, then I start again and when I made setp or eight versions, then at some point I can no longer go further, I went to the limit of my means, to the limit of my talent, at the limit of my strength...".

Georges Perec: his working method

Publication date 22/03/1976 From €100.00

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Interviewed on how he writes even when he is far from his work as a writer, Georges PEREC explains: "I always have, as they say, a notebook, I always work in bits and pieces, on bus trips, or on the subway, or by train, or in the meantime, or a little in a cafe like that...".

Patrick Modiano, écrire la première phrase d'un livre : "On ne sait pas où on va"

Publication date 11/05/2001 From €100.00

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Bernard Pivot reçoit l'écrivain Patrick Modiano pour parler de son livre "La Petite Bijou". Pour préciser s'il savait où il allait après l'écriture de la première phrase de son livre, Modiano utilise une métaphore routière : "Non c'est ça qui est un peu angoissant, on ne sait pas où on va, c'est comme si on conduisait une voiture sans aucune visibilité, la nuit au hasard..."

Nathalie Sarraute: her feelings during writing

Publication date 26/10/1995 From €100.00

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Laure Adler receives the writer Nathalie Sarraute to talk about her writing work. To the question "does she experience happiness when she writes?" , she says, "It’s impossible to say that, because at the moment I’m writing, I have absolutely nothing but interest in what I’m doing".

Barbara: living to write

Publication date 16/12/1966 From €100.00

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Interviewed on how she writes songs, singer Barbara struggles to define the process and says she does not have the talent to write: "...it can’t happen to me that I’m ordered a song, I don’t have the talent to write, I don’t have the talent to write on command, for me to write I have to live".

Michel Legrand and the composition of film music

Publication date 17/08/1972 From €100.00

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At home, in the countryside, Michel LEGRAND explains to Pierre BOUTEILLER that he needs this place to write and how he works on the composition of his film music. Equipped with a editing table, he can watch the movies at leisure and write the music on his piano installed in the same room, which is none other than his room.

L'ennemi de Jean-Loup Dabadie : le blanc du papier

Publication date 14/01/1979 From €100.00

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Jean-Loup DABADIE confesses to want to please when he writes for others but explains that it is above all a long and difficult work.

Marguerite Duras and the Method

Publication date 28/09/1984 From €100.00

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Marguerite Duras décrit ses méthodes de travail. Elle parle notamment de son besoin d'ordre autour d'elle avant de commencer à écrire : "...c'est vrai qu'une chambre avec un lit défait, il faut que ce soit en ordre derrière soi, c'est comme la vaisselle dans la cuisine, c'est pas bon non plus...".

Georges Simenon on his method of writing and his novel "The Cat"

Publication date 14/10/1966 From €100.00

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ITW by Georges SIMENON, sitting at his desk (presumably in his house in Epalinges, Switzerland), smoking his pipe. He finishes "The Cat" by addressing the stages of correction: "the hardest stage". This is his 190th novel. He usually writes in pencil but the latter has been typed directly by the machine: "different rhythm to the machine: faster - the thought follows the rhythm". He declares that "The cat" is not a MAIGRET but a "very hard novel".

Georges Simenon on the time he devotes to writing

Publication date 03/03/1967 From €100.00

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Georges SIMENON describes the distribution of his writing time during the year, explaining that he only mobilizes about 15 days per novel for a total of about three or four novels written per year.

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