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
eye reflection people
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
writing passion people
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.
people found novel
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
people would-be form
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
expression people faces
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
people too-much
no one talks about money more than people who have too much of it ...
people forgiving unhappiness
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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.
feels less life oneself rhythmic sort tells three time
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.
few
Nous sommes peu à penser trop, trop à penser peu. (There are a few who think too much, and many who think too little)
girl suffering littles
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
passion salt wells
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.
credit rich finance
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.