Write about winter in the summer.
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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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.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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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 are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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We live in all we seek.
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