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Francine Prose
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“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.”
Francine Prose (born 1947) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reading Like a Writer, ch. 2, p. 15 (2006)
“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.”
Francine Prose (born 1947) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reading Like a Writer, ch. 3, p. 57 (2006) (referring to a passage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien)
“Love, we soon come to understand, too often provides the occasion for the misuses and abuse of power.”
Francine Prose (born 1947) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories - An Anthology edited by Sandra Bark (2003)