Annie Proulx

“No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them…

— Annie Proulx

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

— Annie Proulx

What we fear we often rage against.

— Annie Proulx

“Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere.…

— Annie Proulx

I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and…

— Annie Proulx

“... Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then…

— Annie Proulx

“Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew…

— Annie Proulx

“You got no fuckin idea how bad it gets. I'm not you. I can't make it on a couple a high-altitude fucks…

— Annie Proulx

“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language”

— Annie Proulx

and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to…

— Annie Proulx

“When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush…

— Annie Proulx

“He had wanted to be a sophomore.”

— Annie Proulx

“The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart…

— Annie Proulx

“Tu sei troppo importante per me, Ennis, figlio di una puttana troia. Vorrei riuscire a mollarti.”

— Annie Proulx

“The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter.”

— Annie Proulx

“We don't make the decisions, just does what we're told where and when we're told. We lives by rules made somewhere else…

— Annie Proulx

“You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew.”

— Annie Proulx

... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall…

— Annie Proulx

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full…

— Annie Proulx

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

— Annie Proulx

“Alkaline water tastes dreadful and was the scourge of covered wagon parties crossing Wyoming for neither men nor beasts could drink it…

— Annie Proulx

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken…

— Annie Proulx

“Quoyle saw his life might be spent in the company of dynasitc dogs named Warren.”

— Annie Proulx

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing…

— Annie Proulx

But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line…

— Annie Proulx