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Quotes from Paris Review interview — Françoise Sagan

1935–2004 France

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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.

Paris Review interview (1956)

I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity.

Paris Review interview (1956)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Françoise Sagan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.