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.
Annie ProulxRead
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
Interpretation
Grieving the loss of a loved one takes time and cannot be rushed.
Annie Proulx emphasizes the profound nature of grief by suggesting that it requires a full year to process the loss of someone dear. This period reflects the cyclical nature of life and time, indicating that healing is a gradual journey that unfolds with the passage of seasons and moments.
In practice
In a eulogy to remind attendees that grieving is a process that takes time.
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.
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
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.
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
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.
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.
Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.
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