--- title: "18 Way Quotes By Annie Dillard" description: "18 Way quotes by Annie Dillard. Plus more from Annie Dillard and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/annie-dillard-509_days_the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-yo_2350164.jpg" --- > [The way you live your days is the way you live your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-you-live-your-life/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/annie-dillard-509_days_the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-yo_2350164.jpg) > [The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-way-to-learn-about-a-writer-is-to-read-the-text-or-texts/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f75/annie-dillard-509_books_the-way-to-learn-about-a-writer-is-to-re_1497973.jpg) > [No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/no-one-escapes-the-wilderness-on-the-way-to-the-promised-land/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc0/annie-dillard-509_land_no-one-escapes-the-wilderness-on-the-way_3037353.jpg) > [The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-way-we-live-our-days-is-the-way-we-live-our-lives/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/annie-dillard-509_inspirational_the-way-we-live-our-days-is-the-way-we-l_1104207.jpg) > [If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/if-we-listened-to-our-intellect-we-d-never-have-a-love-affair-or-go/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/989/annie-dillard-509_affair_if-we-listened-to-our-intellect-we-d-nev_316161.jpg) > [The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-sense-impressions-of-one-celled-animals-are-not-edited-for-the/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c43/annie-dillard-509_animal_the-sense-impressions-of-one-celled-anim_43053.jpg) > [Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/books-swept-me-away-this-way-and-that-one-after-the-other-i-made/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/annie-dillard-509_book_books-swept-me-away-this-way-and-that-on_1484910.jpg) > [No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/no-one-can-help-you-if-you-re-stuck-in-a-work-only-you-can-figure-a/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a3/annie-dillard-509_figures_no-one-can-help-you-if-you-re-stuck-in-a_516789.jpg) > [Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/could-two-live-that-way-could-two-live-under-the-wild-rose-and/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/annie-dillard-509_fall_could-two-live-that-way-could-two-live-u_483842.jpg) > [You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/you-are-wrong-if-you-think-that-you-can-in-any-way-take-the-vision/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/annie-dillard-509_always_you-are-wrong-if-you-think-that-you-can_842451.jpg) > [You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/you-are-wrong-if-you-think-that-you-can-in-any-way-take-the-vision-2/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86b/annie-dillard-509_changelings_you-are-wrong-if-you-think-that-you-can_1501421.jpg) > [“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/let-the-grass-die-i-let-almost-all-of-my-indoor-plants-die-from/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/annie-dillard-509_all-kinds_let-the-grass-die-i-let-almost-all-of-my_136526.jpg) > [When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/when-i-walk-with-a-camera-i-walk-from-shot-to-shot-reading-the-light/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d96/annie-dillard-509_camera_when-i-walk-with-a-camera-i-walk-from-sh_787119.jpg) > [There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/there-is-a-certain-age-at-which-a-child-looks-at-you-in-all/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/annie-dillard-509_age_there-is-a-certain-age-at-which-a-child_411111.jpg) > [When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/when-you-open-a-book-the-sentimental-library-posters-said-anything/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/664/annie-dillard-509_anything-can-happen_when-you-open-a-book-the-sentimental-lib_1068746.jpg) > [Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/peeping-through-my-keyhold-i-see-within-the-range-of-only-about-30/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e83/annie-dillard-509_animal_peeping-through-my-keyhold-i-see-within_2450432.jpg) > [When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/when-i-was-six-or-seven-years-old-growing-up-in-pittsburgh-i-used-to/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37c/annie-dillard-509_casts_when-i-was-six-or-seven-years-old-growin_1561733.jpg) > [All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/all-the-green-in-the-planted-world-consists-of-these-whole-rounded/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/annie-dillard-509_atoms_all-the-green-in-the-planted-world-consi_644850.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Annie Dillard > [Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/like-everyone-in-his-right-mind-i-feared-santa-claus/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) > [“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/this-is-a-spendthrift-economy-though-nothing-is-lost-all-is-spent/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) > [The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-creatures-i-seek-do-not-want-to-be-seen/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) > [Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/nothing-moves-a-woman-so-deeply-as-the-boyhood-of-the-man-she-loves/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/we-live-in-all-we-seek-the-hidden-shows-up-in-too-plain-sight-it/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-mockingbird-took-a-single-step-into-the-air-and-dropped-his-wings/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/father-had-stretched-out-his-long-legs-and-was-tilting-back-in-his/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/i-am-a-frayed-and-nibbled-survivor-in-a-fallen-world-and-i-am-getting/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) > [It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/it-should-surprise-no-one-that-the-life-of-the-writer-such-as-it-is/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/it-is-madness-to-wear-ladies-straw-hats-and-velvet-hats-to-church-we/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-sense-impressions-of-one-celled-animals-are-not-edited-for-the/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/what-can-we-make-of-the-inexpressible-joy-of-children-it-is-a-kind-of/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/if-we-were-to-judge-nature-by-its-common-sense-or-likelihood-we/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/for-writing-a-first-draft-requires-from-the-writer-a-peculiar/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) > [I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/i-am-a-fugitive-and-a-vagabond-a-sojourner-seeking-signs/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/annie-dillard/#itemlist", "name": "18 Way Quotes By Annie Dillard", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The way you live your days is the way you live your life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Annie Dillard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-you-live-your-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/annie-dillard-509_days_the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-yo_2350164.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/annie-dillard-509_days_the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-yo_2350164.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/annie-dillard-509_days_the-way-you-live-your-days-is-the-way-yo_2350164.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The way you live your days is the way you live your life.” — Annie Dillard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. 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