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
long bearable
The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...
reading people asks
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?
firefly people bangs
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.
regret book want
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
writing ideas shadow
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
done talent proust
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
eye kissing thinking
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
desire fear-of-love pleasure
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
positive
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
men dating he-man
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
writing arbitrary jazz
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
time thinking trying
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
love-life long life-is
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
relationship broken-heart cells
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.