American - Writer | April 1, 1947 -
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
Francine Prose
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I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
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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.
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I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.
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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 wasn't going to support me.
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Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
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I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
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A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.
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I'm in a rage all of the time.
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