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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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.Nathalie Sarraute
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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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.
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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.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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