I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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.
. . . what is hidden beneath the interior monologue an immense profusion of sensations, images, sentiments, memories, impulses, little larval actions that no inner language can convey, that jostle one another on the threshold of consciousness. . .
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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 will discover new worlds.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
I have never sought the reason why I write.
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
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.
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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.
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, without paying attention to styles.
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