"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the……" — Annie Proulx
"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
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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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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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Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring…
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't…
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils…
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
— James Cameron
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
— Thomas Carlyle
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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence.…
— Graydon Carter
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your…
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I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I…
— Bela Karolyi
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The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation…
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