Nathalie Sarraute (French: [natali saʁot]; July 18, 1900 – October 19, 1999) was a French lawyer and writer. Read full biography of Nathalie Sarraute →
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... →
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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.
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... →
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I have never sought the reason why I write.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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... →
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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... →
Nathalie Sarraute (French: [natali saʁot]; July 18, 1900 – October 19, 1999) was a French lawyer and writer.