The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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One 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.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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