I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
ANNIE DILLARDOne of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time – give it, give it all, give it now.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Write about winter in the summer.
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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We live in all we seek.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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