Unrepeated 15 Selected Quotes From Annie Dillard

Unrepeated 15 Selected Quotes From Annie Dillarde

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

— Annie Dillard

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

— Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

— Annie Dillard

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

— Annie Dillard

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

— Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

— Annie Dillard

Write as if you were dying.

— Annie Dillard

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

— Annie Dillard

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

— Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

— Annie Dillard

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

— Annie Dillard

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

— Annie Dillard

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

— Annie Dillard

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