Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
— Nathalie Sarraute
For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.
— Kenneth Grahame
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
— Nathalie Sarraute
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
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
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
— Nathalie Sarraute
I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
— Elvis Costello
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.
— Jillian Hervey
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
— Nathalie Sarraute
I have never sought the reason why I write.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
— E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
— George Berkeley
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Every myth has a modicum of truth
— Lonny Lee
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.
— Nathalie Sarraute
