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I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

Annie Proulx

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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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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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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If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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I would rather be dead than not read
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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
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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.
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It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
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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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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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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.
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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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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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
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