"I would rather be dead than not read" — Annie Proulx
"I would rather be dead than not read"
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Annie Proulx
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40 Quotes by Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx has 40 quotes on this site.
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations…
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather…
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The…
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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to…
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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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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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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
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What we fear we often rage against.
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If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a…
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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