Art Quote by Nathalie Sarraute Download Open image “The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.” — Nathalie Sarraute ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Books Moving Novel Transforming
If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to. — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
“At their most basic level, great fictional stories are about transformation - usually a change from one perspective to another. The change may be… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well. — George P Elliott Copy Share Image
Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass. — David Foster Copy Share Image
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
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… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
