Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

- Francoise Sagan

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.

- Francoise Sagan

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

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

- Francoise Sagan

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

- Francoise Sagan

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.

- Francoise Sagan

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

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

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

- Francoise Sagan

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

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.

- Francoise Sagan

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

- Francoise Sagan

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

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

- Francoise Sagan

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

- Francoise Sagan

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

- Francoise Sagan

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

- Francoise Sagan

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

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

- Francoise Sagan

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

- Francoise Sagan