"“Where a story begins in the mind I am not sure—a memory of haystacks, maybe, or wheel ruts in the ruined stone, the ironies that fall out of the friction between past and present, some casual phrase overheard. But something kicks in, some powerful juxtaposition, and the whole book shapes itself up in the mind…”"
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Pulitzer Prize winnersNovelists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesPostmodern authorsPeople from Connecticut
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On her writing process in in “An Interview with Annie Proulx” in The Missouri Review (1999 Mar 1)
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