Boring Quote by Francine Prose Download Open image “Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.” — Francine Prose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boring Compared Fiction Writing Writing fiction
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction. — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity. — James Taranto Copy Share Image
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“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… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“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… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“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… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“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… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
'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… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions. — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
