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Francine Prose Quotes (1947-)
Writer, Novelist
About Francine Prose
Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic.
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“Love, we soon come to understand, too often provides the occasion for the misuses and abuse of power.”
“You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.”
“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”
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Francine Prose on Anita Desai
“She makes the apparently exotic . . . seem as universal, as vital and familiar, as the food on our plates.”
Francine Prose on Anton Chekhov
“Read Chekhov, read the stories straight through. Admit that you understand nothing of life, nothing of what you see. Then go out and look at the world.”
Francine Prose on Roberto Bolaño
“Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.”
About Francine Prose
Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic.