I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at … - Francine Prose

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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

Francine Prose

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

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

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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Creative, Elements, Instead, Skills, Writing

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

Class, Ethics, Important, Manual, Self

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.

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When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

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