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Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

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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.

Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958).
-- Francoise Sagan, (Jun 21 1935-2004), French novelist; She is best known for her novel A Certain Smile, 1956.


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