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.
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.
falling-in-love fall conventional
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
ugly unhappiness teach
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
art reality special
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.
brother men order
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
passion rich poor
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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.
proust
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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.