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Nathalie Sarraute
[1900-1999]
Russian
Rank: 101
Lawyer
Nathalie Sarraute was a French lawyer and writer.
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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.
101
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
102
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.
103
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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104
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
105
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.
106
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.
107
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
108
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.
109
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
110
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.
111
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
112
I have never sought the reason why I write.
113
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.
114
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.
115
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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