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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Journalist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
E.A. Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx
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I would rather be dead than not read
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Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
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