Top 17 Quotes by Francine Prose

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

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

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

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.

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

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.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.