Title: Photo-Photo - Marie Nimier - book
Summary :
"There's a question I'm often asked, the question of ideas. How do they come about, where do I get them, the famous "but where does she get all that?" How did the idea of writing a novel based on a photo shoot with Karl Lagerfeld come about, in this case? I tend to answer that ideas don't exist, that there is only time. Or if they do exist, they have very little to do with the practice of the novel, its day-to-day writing. They are there upstream, covering pages of preparatory notes, then melting like snow in the sun. What remains are the parts of the body they brought to light, the lines they inspired. The appearance of a cat. The blink of an eyelid. Linden-green shoes. Two letters, an angle, a jetty. A trip to Baden-Baden, the rendezvous of the evaporated. The sweetness of Frederika's mouth, her velvety." Marie Nimier.
