Francoise Sagan

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

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

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”