Francine Prose Quotes - Page 2

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• You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.

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  Army, White, Zombie

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.15, Harper Collins

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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. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.

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  Morning, Loss, Feel Better

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• But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

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  Ideas, Ironic, Quality

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• But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.

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  Running, Grief, Dark

  Francine Prose (2011). “Sicilian Odyssey”, p.26, National Geographic Books

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• Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

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  Children, Inspire, Handwriting

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Union Books

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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 or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

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  Thinking, Literature, Strange

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• 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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  Character, Mean, Expression

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• Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

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  Reading, School, Class

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• 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 to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

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  Bereavement, Trying, Mystery Of Death

  Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

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  Four, Journalism, Novel

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• I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

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  Long, Seven Days, Week

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• Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

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  Writing, Fiction, Facts

  "Francine Prose on ‘My New American Life’". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.theparisreview.org. May 13, 2011.

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