Quotes by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

Character

Labyrinth

Views

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 as invention.

Imagination

Memories

Records

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

Destiny

Son

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 veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

Monsters

Waking Life

Writing

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

Way

Writing

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 holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants… Life has become impossible.

Boys

Girl

Practice

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

Blood

Dream

Girl

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Quotes by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

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 as invention.

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

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 veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

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 holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants… Life has become impossible.

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

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