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Write Quotes by Annie Dillard
- The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
- When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.…
- At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
- It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
- Write as if you are dying.
- 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…
- Write about winter in the summer.
- Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
- It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a…
- Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,…
- The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
- Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people…
- I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will…
- He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what…
- I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in…
- 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.
- The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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