Quotes by Annie Proulx

About Annie Proulx:

Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.
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A kind of joyous hysteria moved into the room, everything flying before the wind, vehicles outside getting dented to hell, the crowd sweaty and the smells of aftershave, manure, clothes dried on the line, your money’s worth of perfume, smoke, booze...

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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, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replicati...

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Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to ...

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I wish I knew how to quit you.

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When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

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We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to ...

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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

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...hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany...

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I play the fiddle....I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house.

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He had a feel for silence, for leading to an unsounded note the listener yearned for...

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You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive....You take a fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from.

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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.

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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnnie Proulx
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, short story and non-fiction author
  • AliasesE. Annie Proulx; E.A. Proulx
  • BornAugust 22, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Novelist; Journalist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award