Francoise Sagan

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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I always believe things are going to work out. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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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

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

— Francoise Sagan

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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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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

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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

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

— Francoise Sagan

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Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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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. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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