After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
From Francoise Sagan
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
For me 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.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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.
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.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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