"The sensation of writing a book is the……" — Annie Dillard
"The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence."
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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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Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and…
— Buddy Hackett
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
— Bob Hope
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting…
— George Foreman
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
— Homer
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought…
— Homer
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The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
— Mike Pence
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First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's…
— Unknown Author
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What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely…
— S.A. Bodeen
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My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it's shaky or slightly out of focus, I…
— Steve Irwin
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I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks…
— Luther Allison
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When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a…
— Alexander Skarsgard
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See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
— Bill Haley
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