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
love-is cost
Love is worth whatever it costs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
writing balance ifs
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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.
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.