Psychology Quotes by Annie Dillard

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

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

— Annie Dillard

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

— Annie Dillard

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

— Annie Dillard

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard…

— Annie Dillard

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I…

— Annie Dillard

“it is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.”

— annie dillard

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all…

— Annie Dillard

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind…

— Annie Dillard

The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of…

— Annie Dillard

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.…

— Annie Dillard

“An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts…

— Annie Dillard

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of…

— Annie Dillard

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return…

— Annie Dillard

“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down,…

— Annie Dillard

You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And…

— Annie Dillard

Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us…

— Annie Dillard

“The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies…

— Annie Dillard