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Quotes by Francoise Sagan

'I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.'

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.

'Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.'

'Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.'

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