Quotes from Francoise Sagan

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

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

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.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

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.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: 'Are you in love? What are you reading?

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.

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

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

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

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

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

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

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.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Art must take reality by surprise.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

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.

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

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.