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All Quotes by author - Francine Prose
" A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful. "
Off
Start
Confident
" A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. "
Problem
You
Art
" Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction. "
Writing
Compared
Boring
" For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp. "
See
Ability
Clear
" I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. "
Child
Look
Home
" If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in. "
Writing
Day
I Can
" I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled. "
Know
Through
Fooled
" I'm in a rage all of the time. "
Time
Rage
" I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss. "
Good
Great
Sports
" I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say. "
Myself
Think
Help
" I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. "
Dramatic
More
Think
" I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me. "
Living
World
Support
" I work really long days and I work seven day weeks. "
Long
Work
Seven
" I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism. "
Four
Word
Before
" Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson. "
Style
Reading
Construction
" Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time. "
Always
Old
Started
" 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "
Solitude
Thank You
School
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