Leïla Slimani

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749 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud · Leïla Slimani · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And sometimes it's hard because you feel very, very lonely and you feel that maybe you have

lost something but at the same time that's the only way of life that's that works for me yeah it's interesting the idea of showing affection and not receiving it being

Yeah, I was reading the other day an interview of Knosgaard, the Norwegian author.

And he said that one day he was in a bar and he was talking with a girl, a very beautiful girl.

And she wanted to meet again with him.

And she said, give me your number, your address.

And he said, no, no, I have to go home.

I have a lot of work.

I have to finish my manuscript.

And he went back home, he was writing, and she arrived, she rang.

And he said, and it was so difficult to explain to her that she was so less important than the manuscript.

You know, even your children sometimes, they become your enemies.

And it's terrible to think that as a mother.

But the whole world becomes an enemy.

You feel like everyone is conspirating against you to prevent you from writing.

So you have really to fight to close the door and to make people understand that.

But at the same time,

Yourself, sometimes you're in your office surrounded by books in front of your blank page and you're like, oh my God, I spent my whole life doing this, reading and writing and reading and writing.

But did I really live?

There has to be more than books, but maybe not.

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