146 Quotes by Françoise Sagan

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

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.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

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.