Francine Prose Quotes

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

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

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

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

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do e...

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

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

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then n...

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

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

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

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

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

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 you...

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential t...