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17 quotes by Francine Prose

Francine Prose Prose at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival Born (1947-04-01) 1 April 1947 (age 67) Brooklyn, New York Occupation Novelist Nationality American Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American writer. She is a Visiting Professor of Literature at Bard College. Prose graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. Prose's novel The Glorious...
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I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor... →

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'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... →

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Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They... →

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I'm in a rage all of the time.

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For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is... →

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I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not... →

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A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

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A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

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Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

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I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

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

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

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