One must see everything.

All societies are historical.

— Raymond Queneau

The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration…

— Raymond Queneau

“He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it…

— Raymond Queneau

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

— Raymond Queneau

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the…

— Raymond Queneau

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

— Raymond Queneau

“Spiders’ teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.”

— Raymond Queneau

“As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.”

— Raymond Queneau

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing,…

— Raymond Queneau

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

— Raymond Queneau

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

— Raymond Queneau

“Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which impose on…

— Raymond Queneau