List of Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

One Can't Write Without Having Read - You Have To Read Before Beginning To Write - And Universities Offer A Very Good Opportunity To Read.

Chacun Peut E Prouver En Soi Ce Double Mouvement: De S Ir De S'inte Grer A' La Socie Te , Besoin De Se Re Aliser Par Soi-me" Me En Dehors D'elle. We All Have This Double Impulse Within Ourselves: The Desire To Integrate Into Society, And The Need To Fulfil Ourselves Outside Of It, Through Our Own Efforts.

The Novel Moves Like All The Arts. It's Transforming Itself All The Time.

Le Mot 'psychologie'est Un De Ceux Qu'aucun Auteur D'aujourd'hui Ne Peut Entendre Prononcer A' Son Sujet Sans Baisser Les Yeux Et Rougir. The Word 'psychology' Is One That No Author Today Can Hear Said About Her Work Without Lowering Her Eyes And Blushing.

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.

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.

I Have Never Sought The Reason Why I Write.

I Don't For A Minute Think That Hitler Is Like Joan Of Arc. But I Think That At That Deep Level Of Tropisms, Hitler Or Stalin Must Have Experienced The Same Tropisms As Anyone Else.

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.

It's A Question Of Not Copying The Masters, To Look For Something, Good Or Bad, For Oneself. To Enter This Liberated State Of Mind, One Cannot Copy The Others.

Television Has Lifted The Manufacture Of Banality Out Of The Sphere Of Handicraft And Placed It In That Of A Major Industry.

One Can't Write For All Readers. A Poet Cannot Write For People Who Don't Like Poetry.