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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Annie Proulx

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
Author
Journalist
Librettist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
E.A. Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx
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Reading
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Writing

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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
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Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. I'm coming back some day, they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
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I wish I knew how to quit you.
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
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He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
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Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.
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What we fear we often rage against.
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Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.
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