It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ‘fronts’ people assume before one another’s eyes, and the ‘front’ a writer puts on the face of reality. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I’m convinced she’ll get away with it. It’s the only way to get through life. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don’t interest me. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don’t know and don’t understand. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
I’ve tried very hard and I’ve never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Francoise Sagan Read Quote
Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. Francoise Sagan Read Quote