Reviews
Readable and illuminating.few.advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book, Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal -- both in and out of the classroom., Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language…refreshing, The passages are…subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity…Prose is…a skilled…analyst of what makes them so., Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'…Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion., Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal - both in and out of the classroom., An absolutely necessary addition to the personal library of anyone who is a writer or dreams of writing., Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack...[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder., "Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'...Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion." -- New York Times Book Review "Witty...Insightful." -- Washington Post Book World "a jewel of a companion...engrossing...and...daringly insightful." -- Los Angeles Times "The passages are...subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity...Prose is...a skilled...analyst of what makes them so." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack...[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder." -- Washington Times "Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal -- both in and out of the classroom." -- Kansas City Star "Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language...refreshing" -- Time Out New York "An absolutely necessary addition to the personal library of anyone who is a writer or dreams of writing." -- National Public Radio "Makes a case for the rewards of reading." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel "Prose knows when to be funny, how to wield examples, and when to stop." -- More magazine "Readable and illuminating...few...advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book" -- Capital Times "Prose's guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer's bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Prose's guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer's bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel., Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'.Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion., Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'...Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion., Readable and illuminating...few...advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book, Readable and illuminating…few…advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book, "Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal ? both in and out of the classroom." (Kansas City Star), Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack…[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder., Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack.[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder., Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language...refreshing, The passages are...subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity...Prose is...a skilled...analyst of what makes them so.
