Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

Nathalie Sarraute Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Nathalie Sarraute
Type:
Lawyer
Nationality:
Russian
Birth day:
July 18
Birth year:
1900

  • 1
    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
  • 2
    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
  • 3
    I have never sought the reason why I write. Nathalie Sarraute
  • 4
    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
  • 5
    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
  • 6
    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
  • 7
    One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. Nathalie Sarraute
  • 8
    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
  • 9
    Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. Nathalie Sarraute
  • 10
    Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. Nathalie Sarraute
  • 11
    The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. Nathalie Sarraute
  • 12
    Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. Nathalie Sarraute

 

 

 

 

 

 

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