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 wil…

- Nathalie Sarraute

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced t…

- Nathalie Sarraute

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

- Nathalie Sarraute

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

- Nathalie Sarraute

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 r…

- Nathalie Sarraute

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, with…

- Nathalie Sarraute

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

- Nathalie Sarraute

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

- Nathalie Sarraute

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

- Nathalie Sarraute