Francoise Sagan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”

“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.”

“After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.”

“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”

“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.”

“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.”

“Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”

“I had a strong desire to write and some free time.”

“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”

“It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.”