Sarraute Nathalie Quotes

#1. 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. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

Nathalie Sarraute

#2. You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still learn things. I still think I can become a much better actor.

Stellan Skarsgard

#3. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

#4. I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute

#6. Alas he had forgotten, he said, that she was a novelist as well as a mathematician. What a disappointment for the Parisian that he was neither. Merely a scholar, and a man.

Alice Munro

#7. Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.

Wanda Sykes

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

Nathalie Sarraute

#9. Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Tom Robbins

#10. Babe, look at me."
"Kiss my ass," I replied.

Kristen Ashley

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

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute

#15. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

#16. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute

#18. I have a public bathroom rating system that I keep in my head, and anything that I think rates lower than two stars, I won't even enter.

Sally J. Pla

#19. Trust God, and do the next thing.

Oswald Chambers

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

Nathalie Sarraute

#21. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

#22. I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.

Nathalie Sarraute

#23. Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.

David Eddings

#24. Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Nathalie Sarraute

#25. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

#26. I have never sought the reason why I write.

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute

#28. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

#29. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

#30. 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.

Nathalie Sarraute

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

Nathalie Sarraute