and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.
I would rather be dead than not read - Annie Proulx
I would rather be dead than not read
- Annie Proulx
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up. - Annie Proulx
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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, world… - Annie Proulx
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, world…
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, an… - Annie Proulx
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, an…
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. - Annie Proulx
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. - Annie Proulx
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
I wish I knew how to quit you. - Annie Proulx
I wish I knew how to quit you.
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, … - 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, …
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. - Annie Proulx
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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