39 Quotes by Nathalie Sarraute

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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