Quotes By Annie Dillard BACK
- She read books as one
- The world did not have
- The creatures I seek do
- We teach our children one
- Silence is not our heritage
- We live half our waking
- The body of literature with
- I think it would be
- Your feelings are none of
- Adverbs are a sign that
- I woke in bits like
- It is difficult to undo
- Writers serve as the memory
- I come down to the
- The dedicated life is worth
- The sensation of writing a
- Then why did you tell
- What a hideout Holiness lies
- I do not so much
- I work mornings only I
- Are you living just a
- We still and always want
- We are here to witness
- No one escapes the wilderness
- Learn punctuation it is your
- Nothing moves a woman so
- I dont know what it
- Write as if you were
- We are most deeply asleep
- The mind itself is an
- It should surprise no one
- The point of going somewhere
- As soon as beauty is
- I noticed this process of
- I wake up thinking What
- Nothing on earth is more
- Self consciousness is the curse
- The mind wants to live
- I have since only rarely
- Books swept me away this
- Our family was on the
- What could you say to
- There is no shortage of
- You do what you do
- There is no whit less
- I cannot imagine a sorrier
- It would seem that emotions
- Your freedom as a writer
- People who take photographs during
- The courage of children and
- If I actually believed that
- He judged the instant and
- Buddhism notes that it is
- We wake if ever at
- Those of us who read
- Time is the warp and
- It is madness to wear
- There is no such thing
- There is a muscular energy
- Last forever Who hasnt prayed
- It is difficult to undo
- Fiction keeps its audience by
- Crystals grew inside rock like
- Unless all ages and races
- I saw in a blue
- Tonight I walked around the
- Natures silence is its one
- Dont save something good for
- No the point is not
- Hasidism has a tradition that
- At its best the sensation
- The dear stupid body is
- I know only enough of
- The sensation of writing a
- Every spring he vowed to
- There were no formerly heroic
- For writing a first draft
- We have not yet encountered
- Why do you never find
- Many writers do little else
- A schedule defends from chaos
- The real and proper question
- I breathed the air of
- When I teach I preach
- No one can help you
- There is always the temptation
- Cruelty is a mystery and
- We live in all we
- The sense impressions of one
- I had been chipping at
- It was less like seeing
- According to Inuit culture in
- Dan Gerber is one of
- I had been my whole
- I wake expectant hoping to
- Our life is a faint
- I would like to learn
- Every book has an intrinsic
- Every live thing is a
- Aim for the chopping block
- You do not have to
- The world is wider in
- The creative process obtains in
- Johnstons books are beautifully written
- But enough is enough One
- I couldnt unpeach the peaches
- You search you break your
- The world knew you before
- When I was six or
- Divinity is not playful The
- It is ironic that the
- There are no events but
- No child on earth was
- You empty yourself and wait
- poetry has been able to
- The answer must be I
- The way you live your
- I worked so hard all
- I cant dance anymore Total
- Push it examine all things
- Time is the continuous loop
- Make connections let rip and
- We are here to witness
- Beauty and grace are performed
- Young children have no sense
- As a thinker I keep
- I am sorry I ran
- I still try to keep
- An Eskimo shaman said Lifes
- The irrational haunts the metaphysical
- Hone and spread your spirit
- I alternate between thinking of
- Out of a human population
- Love so sprang at her
- God gave me a talent
- It has always been a
- Appealing workplaces are to be
- If youre going to publish
- There is no shortage of
- Just think in all the
- I like to be aware
- There was only silence It
- Similarly the impulse to keep
- If we listened to our
- I break up through the
- The more you read the
- I had good innings as
- The secret is not to
- Old memories are very easy
- Our life is a faint
- There is neither a proportional
- How you spend your days
- You can serve or you
- There is a certain age
- Every day is a god
- Whenever an encounter between a
- For all the insularity of
- After the one extravagant gesture
- An Inuit hunter asked the
- The universe is illusion merely
- You cant test courage cautiously
- Theirs is the mystery of
- I am a fugitive and
- To crank myself up I
- Take a quick dip relax
- You have to take pains
- Novels written with film contracts
- A shepherd on a hilltop
- The written word is weak
- What have we been doing
- why did I have to
- Nature seems to exult in
- Why are we reading if
- We sleep to times hurdy
- How can people think that
- One of the few things
- Art is like an ill
- If we were to judge
- The novel is a game
- Wherever we go there seems
- All my books started out
- You cant test courage cautiously
- I write in my own
- On plenty of days the
- In literary history generation follows
- It could be that our
- Like any child I slid
- When you write you lay
- The mind itself is an
- Noticing and remembering everything would
- Nature is above all profligate
- By dipping us children in
- Just once I wanted a
- Cruelty is a mystery and
- Possibly everyone now dead considered
- He is careful of what
- How we spend our days
- The mind of the writer
- Write as if you are
- I had hopes for my
- Could two live that way
- When you open a book
- I am a frayed and
- We wake if we ever
- The readers ear must adjust
- Geography is the key the
- A schedule is a mock
- The interior life is often
- Your work is to keep
- What I sought in books
- I think that the dying
- When I walk with a
- The sea pronounces something over
- Even if things are as
- I never met a man
- I cannot cause light the
- Landscape consists in the multiple
- People who read are not
- Almost all of my many
- Experiencing the present purely is
- How we spend our days
- The world is fairly studded
- The Pulitzer is more useful
- I would like to live
- We live in all we
- What is a house but
- What I call innocence is
- When I first read the
- The life of sensation is
- Unfortunately nature is very much
- It is the fixed that
- Evolution loves death more than
- Skin was earth it was
- We are here to abet
- It has always been a
- Im a housewife I spend
- The silence is all there
- The painter does not fit
- What do I make of
- Anything you do not give
- The surest sign of age
- Who and of what import
- Insects are not only cold
- The soul may ask God
- Spend the afternoon You cant
- Private life book life took
- Its about waking up A
- Why do we people in
- Like everyone in his right
- Our life seems cursed to
- Does anything eat flowers I
- if you stay still earth
- I think the dying pray
- Admire the world for never
- These are our few live
- Having chosen this foolishness I
- Its a little silly to
- It makes more sense to
- We are here on the
- When you write you lay
- The mind wants the world
- Put yourself out of your
- The universe that suckled us
- Caring passionately about something isnt
- What is important is the
- Trees have a curious relationship
- You are wrong if you
- As a lifes work I
- Let the grass die I
- You are wrong if you
- There must be bands of
- At a certain point you
- Id seen a great many
- If even rock was interesting
- About five years ago I
- I cannot cause light the
- Doing something does not require
- The extravagant gesture is the
- A schedule defends from chaos
- Writing a book is like
- Our life is a faint
- Painters work from the ground
- I feel as though I
- Ecstasy I think is a
- I woke at intervals until
- The point of the dragonflys
- Knowing you are alive is
- Whenever there is stillness there
- Why are we reading if
- The way to learn about
- We are here to bring
- Write about winter in the
- Write about winter in the
- At night I read and
- Today is one of those
- The universe was not made
- A writer looking for subjects
- The way we live our