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

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

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

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

- Annie Proulx

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

- Annie Proulx

I wish I knew how to quit you.

- 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, …

- Annie Proulx

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

- Annie Proulx