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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.

Annie Proulx
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Annie Proulx's Popular Quotes

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.

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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, world…

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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…

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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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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

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I wish I knew how to quit you.

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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, …

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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

- Annie Proulx
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