Francoise Sagan Quotes
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.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.
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.
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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.
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.
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.
I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.
