Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

• We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.

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• You know that one should feel happy. All the true writers have experienced this feeling. When one does not experience it, I am obliged to tell you that it is a bad sign.

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• The word ‘psychology’ is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

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

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

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• The reader has to be creative when he’s reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

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

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

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

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

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• One can’t write without having read – you have to read before beginning to write – and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

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

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• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It’s endless. I’m sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

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• It’s the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

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• 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, one cannot copy the others.

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• 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 have the impression it’s carrying along quite well.

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• I have never sought the reason why I write.

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• 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 have been a disaster.

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• 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 is.

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Nathalie Sarraute (19)

Birth:	18th July, 1900
Death:	19th October, 1999
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Lawyer, Novelist, Writer

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