Cracking 15 Selected Quotes From Annie Dillard
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Cracking 15 Selected Quotes From Annie Dillarde |
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
— Annie Dillard
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
— Annie Dillard
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
— Annie Dillard
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
— Annie Dillard
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
— Annie Dillard
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
— Annie Dillard
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
— Annie Dillard
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
— Annie Dillard
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
— Annie Dillard
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
— Annie Dillard
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
— Annie Dillard
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
— Annie Dillard
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
— Annie Dillard
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
— Annie Dillard
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
— Annie Dillard
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