Francoise Sagan

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

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

— Francoise Sagan

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

— Francoise Sagan

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.

— Francoise Sagan

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

— Francoise Sagan

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