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Set Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- 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,…
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
- It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
- For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we…
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