Able Quote by Francine Prose

“I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.” quote by Francine Prose — Download Open image

“I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.”

Francine Prose

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Able Book Books Feels Found Imagine Imagine that Might Reading Someday

More by Francine Prose

“I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan”

Francine Prose

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

Image

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Francine Prose

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

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

Image

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

Francine Prose

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 73 Francine Prose quotes

More Able quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

Image

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Alice Englert

Image

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

Huey Lewis

Image

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still…

Nas

Image

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

Anthony Jeselnik

Image

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

Pee Wee Reese

Image

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Anais Nin

Image

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

Greg Perry