Write about winter in the summer.
ANNIE DILLARDI 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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We live in all we seek.
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