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Literature Quotes by 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 this subject more…
- Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
- There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
- 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…
- 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…
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