Francoise Sagan Quotes - Page 3

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

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.

I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

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.

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

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.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

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.

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.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

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.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

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.

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.

No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.