Francoise Sagan Quotes

"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. 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."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Life, Time, Jazz, Question, Writing)

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Jealousy, Laughter, Nothing)

"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Time, Books, Regret, Want, Will)

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Power, Laughter)

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Music, Feeling, Jazz)

"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."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: People, Eyes, Reality, Writer)

"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Love)

"Art must take reality by surprise."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Art, Reality)

"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Men, Dress, Sense)

"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Talent)