Amelie Nothomb — Belgian Writer born on July 09, 1966,

Baroness Amélie Nothomb (born Fabienne-Claire, 9 July 1966 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is a Belgian writer who writes in French... (wikipedia)

I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.
More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.