I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know. 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.


Paris Review interview (1956)

Françoise Sagan Quotes

I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my...

I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my...

I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my...

I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my...