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

For a cause, for my vocation, for literature, for my children maybe.

But it's difficult for me to show love.

And I think it's difficult for me to receive love.

That's something that my publisher told me the other day.

He said, you're very nice to people.

And sometimes I suspect you to be that generous to prevent people from giving you things.

Because if you're the one who gives, it's so difficult to give you.

And I think he's right.

Yeah.

And it's probably linked, of course, to my childhood, to my experience, but also to my work.

I live in solitude and I live in a tower, like Virginia Woolf said, in a leaning tower.

I live in solitude even if I have to, of course, stay aware of what's happening around me and in the world.

But I think that I write also because I want to avoid living and I want to avoid real life.

I want to avoid a lot of things.

And when you write, you have a very good excuse to say no, no.

I'm not available.

No, I'm not coming.

No, I don't care.

I don't care about the mail.

I don't care about the house.

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