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Francine Prose Quotes

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1947

Topics

Writing Boring Fiction Compared

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

Heart Woman Finding Take Something

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Maynard James Keenan

Archetypes Global Religious Most

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Love God Loyalty War Nationalism

The human imagination can connect to practically anything.

Imagination Human Anything Connect

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

Problems Financial Crisis Big Banks

They make three types of movies, and if you don't make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It's either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it's an animated film, or it's an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don't make movies about real people.

People Comedy You Sex Find Three

At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state.

Great Money Way First Everyone Saw

When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the daily 'New York Times' and one in the weekly 'New York Times Book Review,' too, for good measure. But by and large, it was not a conversation-generating book.

Good Daily New York Small Book New

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

Face Think Learn Trying You Know

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

Weak Respected Nor Neither Rewarded

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Name Play More Bigger Star Her

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

Home Sitting Lucky Crumbling Could

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