Nathalie Sarraute

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

— Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de…

— Nathalie Sarraute

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

— 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…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I have never sought the reason why I write.

— Nathalie Sarraute

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

— Nathalie Sarraute

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet.…

— Nathalie Sarraute

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will…

— Nathalie Sarraute

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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.…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of…

— Nathalie Sarraute

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

— Nathalie Sarraute

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something…

— Nathalie Sarraute