Francine Prose Quotes

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

Francine Prose

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Step
  • Comfortable

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lying
  • Curiosity
  • Wait

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Unexpected

• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Book
  • Want
  • End

• I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Real
  • Fun

• I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.

  

  Charles Sturridge
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Understanding

• I want you to read the true system of the heart, drafted by a decent man and published under another name. I do not want you to be biased against good and useful books merely because a man unworthy of reading them has the audacity to call himself the Author.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Heart
  • True

• I get 'The New Yorker,' and I'm usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, 'Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!' But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.

  

  Jason Jones
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

  

  Carol Emshwiller
  • World
  • Writing
  • Stories

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

  

  Francine Prose
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Learned