Annie Proulx

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

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

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

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.