Art Quotes by Annie Dillard

Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.

— Annie Dillard

“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.”

— Annie Dillard

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

— Annie Dillard

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

— Annie Dillard

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard

“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing…

— Annie Dillard

“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking…

— Annie Dillard

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done…

— Annie Dillard

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory…

— Annie Dillard

It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life…

— Annie Dillard

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means…

— Annie Dillard

“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes…

— Annie Dillard

“If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one…

— Annie Dillard

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?

— Annie Dillard

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

— Annie Dillard