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....

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,....

She emerges from the station directly across from the restaurant. And she's right on time. Like magic,....

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.....

But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence....

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

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