Quotes Nathalie Sarraute

All psychological research is completely barred by the inter...

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shak...

I have never sought the reason why I write....

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels ...

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for some...

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians,...

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this imme...

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for peo...

One can't write without having read-you have to read before ...

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organis...

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the...

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but...

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself ...

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to t...

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace t...

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with fem...