All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. — Nathalie Sarraute
Le mot ‘psychologie’est un de ceux qu’aucun auteur d’aujourd’hui ne peut entendre — Nathalie Sarraute
One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — 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
Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don’t know what this unconscious is. — Nathalie Sarraute