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

— Françoise Sagan

Paris Review interview (1956)
Context: I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the “fronts” people assume before one another’s eyes, and the “front” a writer puts on the face of reality.

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French writer 1935–2004

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