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It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
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