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 DILLARD
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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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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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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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 universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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