Books Quote by Nathalie Sarraute

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

— 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 se re…

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

— 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 of mind,…

— 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. It would…

— 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 this unconscious…

— Nathalie Sarraute