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Out Quotes by 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. program was trying…
- Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
- The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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