There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s f…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e ve…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdu…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Et une fois de plus je m'avan c° ais le long de ces me" mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis des anne es, a' votre re…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion -…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet