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.
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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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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