Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarrautewas a French lawyer and writer...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth18 July 1900
CountryRussian Federation
Nathalie Sarraute quotes about
beginning good offer opportunity
One can't write without having read-you have to read before beginning to write-and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
media television spheres
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
steps world humans
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
people imagine disaster
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.
writing reason-why reason
I have never sought the reason why I write.
france week impression
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.
research psychological interpretation
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.
morbid reactions equilibrium
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
always-trying world literature
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.
writing opportunity very-good
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
writing catharsis kind
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.
art moving novel
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
reading creative trying
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.
effort desire needs
Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. 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.