"So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green……" — Francine Prose
"So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary..."
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32 Quotes by Francine Prose
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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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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything…
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What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above…
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Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.
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Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there,…
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Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
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You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't…
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Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
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If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow…
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There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
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The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then…
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I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal.…
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