“I loathe interviews and getting me to sit still for a whole day is unprecedented.”

— Annie Proulx

On her dislike of interviews in “Annie Proulx, The Art of Fiction No. 199” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5901/annie-proulx-the-art-of-fiction-no-199-annie- in The Paris Review (Spring 2009)
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American novelist, short story and non-fiction author 1935

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