January 27th, 2012 at 3:55PM
Interviewer: You say the important thing at the start is a character? Françoise Sagan: A character, or a few characters, and perhaps an idea for a few of the scenes up to the middle of the book, but it all changes in the writing. For me 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. Françoise Sagan: The Art of Fiction No. 15 (The Paris Review Interview, August 1956)

Interviewer: You say the important thing at the start is a character?

Françoise Sagan: A character, or a few characters, and perhaps an idea for a few of the scenes up to the middle of the book, but it all changes in the writing. For me 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.

Françoise Sagan: The Art of Fiction No. 15 (The Paris Review Interview, August 1956)

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