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I'm in a rage all of the time.

~Francine Prose

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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.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Cannot Help Kind Myself Say Saying Someone Supposed Thing Think You I Think

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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 studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Absorb Anyone Before Comedy Conference Construction Eye Homer Idea Johnson Learned Long Lucid Meter Plot Predecessors Prose Reading Samuel Sentences Studied Style Work Writer Writers

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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.

~Francine Prose

Topics: About Aesthetic Approach Art Fiction Fresh Method New Philosophical Problem Some Start Suggest Thinking Work You

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I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Board Boy Could Direction Good Great High Hit Jump Kid Little Little Kid Looking Loss Off Puberty Remember Remember When Sports Suddenly Then I Remember

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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 trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Convinced Drop Everything Forget Gabriel Graduate Graduate School Harvard Hundred Hundred Years Make Me Novel Out Program Reminded School Solitude Thank Thank You Trying Years You

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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, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Books Child Floor Grief Home Look More Movies My Own Myself Nostalgia Old Own Paralyzed Sitting Than Up Watch Wind I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 1st, 1947

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