Nathalie Sarraute

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

#handicraft #industry #lifted #major #manufacture

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

#because #catharsis #concerned #i #i write

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

#itself #like #moves #novel #time

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

#amount #certain #creative #good #make

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

#human #human beings #live #only #retrace

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

#like #people #poet #poetry #readers