The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
ANNIE DILLARDNature is, above all, profligate.
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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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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We live in all we seek.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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