111 Quotes by Francine Prose

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Paris is an insomniac’s heaven. There is always something to photograph, something hidden in the shadows. One can see so much more in the darkness than in the light of day.

Yes to it all. I had become a puppy that stands on its hind legs and barks when its master fetches its leash.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class.

Only a natural writer could sound as if she is not writing so much as thinking on the page.