Francine Prose Quotes

• Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

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  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.6, Union Books

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• You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

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  Want, Self Knowledge, Aim

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• All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

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  Writing, Skills, Creative

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

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  Self, Class, Important

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• People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

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  People, Lenses, Obsession

  Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

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  Escritura, Jardín, Rosa

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• I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

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  Book, Reading, Might

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

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  Writing, Skills, Choices

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

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  Literature, Occasions

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Matter

  Francine Prose (2013). “The Glorious Ones: A Novel”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Children, Grief, Book

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Twelve

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• To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

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  Art, Light, Differences

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• When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

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  Goal, Information, Speak

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• Con esta recitación de parafernalia y detritus, O'Brien consigue encapsular la experiencia de un ejército y de una guerra en particular, de un paisaje minado y lleno de trampas explosivas, de noches frías y días calurosos, de monzones y arrozales empapados, y de la posibilidad de ser abatido, como Ted Lavender, de repente y de la nada: no sólo en medio de una frase, sino en medio de una cláusula subordinada.

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  Guerra, Ejército, Noche

  "Reading Like a Writer". Book by Francine Prose, 2006.

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• With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

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  Reading, Sight, Temptation

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• Leer era como comer solo, con ese mismo elemento de atracón.

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  Reading, Elements, Eating Alone

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Union Books

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• A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

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  Girl, Remarkable, Irrepressible

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• '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.

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  Thank You, School, Years

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Fooled, Eastern

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• What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

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  Angel, Love Is, Blue

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• I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

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  Thinking, Fiction, Dramatic

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• 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 wasnt going to support me.

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  Universidad, Ideas, Apoyo

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• 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.

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  Sports, Kids, Loss

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• I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.

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  Morning, Loss, Feel Better

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