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I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

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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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I wish I knew how to quit you.
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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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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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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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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It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
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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.
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Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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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.
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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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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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And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
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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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