Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Research, Unconscious)
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Impression, France)
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Art, People, Attention, Duty, Musicians)
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Literature, Trying, Universe, Will, Writers)
"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Poetry, People)
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Opportunity, Beginning)
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Suspicion)
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Television)
"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Act, Writing)
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Time)
"I have never sought the reason why I write."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Reason)
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: People, Being, Disaster, Shakespeare)
"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: World)
"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Women, Writing)
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Work, Reading)