Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Annie Proulx
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Stories
Reader
Life
Thoughts
World
Views
Feeling
Story
Finishes
Read
Prejudices
Experience
Prejudice
Feelings
Finished
More quotes by Annie Proulx
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
Annie Proulx
... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
Annie Proulx
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
Annie Proulx
I wish I knew how to quit you.
Annie Proulx
Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
Annie Proulx
...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
Annie Proulx
It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
Annie Proulx
I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
Annie Proulx
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
Annie Proulx
If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
Annie Proulx
Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.
Annie Proulx
All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
Annie Proulx
Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.
Annie Proulx
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
Annie Proulx
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
Annie Proulx
I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.
Annie Proulx
If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.
Annie Proulx
What we fear we often rage against.
Annie Proulx
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
Annie Proulx