Writer Quotes by Francine Prose

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

— 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

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

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

— Francine Prose

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

— Francine Prose

“Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I…

— Francine Prose

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising…

— Francine Prose

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond…

— Francine Prose

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.…

— Francine Prose

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is…

— Francine Prose

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially,…

— Francine Prose

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their…

— Francine Prose

“Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to…

— Francine Prose

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering…

— Francine Prose

“[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that…

— Francine Prose

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down…

— Francine Prose