Annie Dillard Quotes

• The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

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• The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

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• When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

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• Write about winter in the summer.

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• Write as if you were dying.

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• You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

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• I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

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• Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

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• You can’t test courage cautiously.

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• There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

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• There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

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• 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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• The painter… does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

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• The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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• Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.

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• People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

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• It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

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• I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

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• I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

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• I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

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Annie Dillard (56)

Birth:	30th April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Teacher

About

Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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