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.
From Nathalie Sarraute
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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.
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.
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