Character Quote by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Et une fois de plus je m'avan c° ais le long de ces me" mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets.…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says,…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet