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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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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