Quotes by : Francine Prose

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never....

[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given....

He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters....

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw....

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen,....

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more....

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while....

Saying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more piercing....

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours....