"On plenty of days the writer can write……" — Annie Dillard
"On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away."
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
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It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in…
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and…
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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black…
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he…
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If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing.…
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An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give…
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