Best Annie Dillard Sayings
- Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets? Doe
- When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it… Been
- I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed… Choosing
- The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. Funny
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can… Altitudes
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,… Bewildered
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,… All
- We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. Beauty
- Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine. Caffeine
- Write as if you are dying. Dying
- The world knew you before you knew the world. Funny
- How you spend your days is how you spend your life. Days
- Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. Bivouac
- Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… Cather
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and… Alive
- An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls. Consists
- I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae… Common
- Write about winter in the summer. Inspirational
- The creatures I seek do not want to be seen. Creatures
- The interior life is often stupid. Inspirational
- The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. Funny
- The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. Blinded
- Put yourself out of your misery. Funny
- When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both. Both
- If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your… Affair
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