... guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them / Francine Prose.—1st ed.p. cm.ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077704-3ISBN-10: 0-06-077704-41. English language—Rhetoric. ... taught to pay to the language, to the actual words and sentences that a writer had used. Instead,they had been encouraged to form strong, critical, and oftennegative opinions of geniuses who ... merely relearning to read in an old way that I had learned, but forgotten.We all begin as close readers. Even before we learn to read,the process of being read aloud to, and of listening,...