Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan– real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse– which was written when she was a teenager...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth21 June 1935
CountryFrance
people would-be form
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
eye reality two
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.
believe thinking drunk
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
way film arcs
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.
strong writing desire
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
writing editors accepted
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.
laughter laughing
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
writing balance ifs
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
drama college boredom
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
sad beautiful regret
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.
commitment views ideas
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.
discovery irritated vulnerable
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.
character sides enough
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
nice real saws
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.