111 Quotes by Francine Prose

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasnt going to support me.

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.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.