Sentence Quotes by Francine Prose

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With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and…

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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…

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“I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan”

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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…

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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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“She emerges from the station directly across from the restaurant. And she's right on time. Like magic, Sonya thinks, briefly saddened to realize that…

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“Like, for example, sleeve length. Should he hide the tattoos? Or just wear a T-shirt and let "them" do the talking? If one picture's…

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“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify”

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“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…

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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…

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“I’ve always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though it also…

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“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know,…

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Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar…

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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…

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“Maybe real love is being able to ask, Do I have greens in my teeth?”

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With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined…

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“The repetitions, meaningless expressions, stammers, and nonsensical monosyllables with which we express hesitation, along with the clichés and banalities that constitute so much of…

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