Write about winter in the summer.
ANNIE DILLARDYou can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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