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.
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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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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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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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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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