Quotes by : Francine Prose

[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....

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential....

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....

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come.....

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

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal.....