Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan
— Francine Prose
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
— Francine Prose
And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.
— Francine Prose
Isolated in the attic, Anne could only examine her own history and her own conscience, and try to locate the wellspring of her sadness and her rage.
— Francine Prose
Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture. — Francine Prose
Love is strange was what everyone said. It was practically the club motto. — Francine Prose
Be patient. Life will give you what you need (to write your story). — Francine Prose
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class — Francine Prose
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content. — Francine Prose
decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius. — Francine Prose
There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven't seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time. — Francine Prose
All of us have observed how often our erotic attractions reflect a mysterious but consistent taste, almost as if we were ordering a favorite dish — Francine Prose
One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower? — Francine Prose
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose
I heard he went home to Poughkeepsie and moved back in with his mom. — Francine Prose
The chill lowered my defenses, and I caught a fever. A fever to understand. — Francine Prose
When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal. — Francine Prose
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing. — Francine Prose
Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify — Francine Prose
Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing. — Francine Prose
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time. — Francine Prose
A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover's quarrel like a criminal case — Francine Prose
Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased. — Francine Prose
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. — Francine Prose
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction. — Francine Prose
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. — Francine Prose
Good writing should be grasped at once - in a second. — Francine Prose
Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety. — Francine Prose
In part what made the club such a haven was its power to make each person feel temporarily less alone. — Francine Prose
I'm in a rage all of the time. — Francine Prose
Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time. — Francine Prose
I work really long days and I work seven day weeks. — Francine Prose
Minutes after the shootings, everybody's cell phone rang. — Francine Prose
But did I ever get over her? She came to symbolize everything I wanted and would never have. — Francine Prose
People see everything through the lens of their obsessions. — Francine Prose
Vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt, — Francine Prose
Maybe real love is being able to ask, Do I have greens in my teeth? — Francine Prose
Many people have a gift for language that flows when they are talking and dries up when they are confronted with the blank page, — Francine Prose
We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA or character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan. — Francine Prose
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. — Francine Prose
Only a natural writer could sound as if she is not writing so much as thinking on the page. — Francine Prose
A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful. — Francine Prose
I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say. — Francine Prose
