Francoise Sagan Quotes

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

My work is intensely personal.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

I don't sing about politics or anything like that. I sing about love. That's what I know about.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.