"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."

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Francine Prose

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“I like Quentin Tarantino, especially the early films, but I'm a big fan of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges... you know, people were writing great dialogue back then. It's as if people only have the memory of the last 15 years. So, before Tarantino no one was writing witty dialogue? That's ridiculous. Why do we have to keep referring to Tarantino?”

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“Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.”
“I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.”

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“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.”
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
“There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!”
“And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.”
“I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.”

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