Annie Dillard Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Blood, Smell

• Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again.

  Annie Dillard

  Literature, Honestly, Written

• In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

  Annie Dillard

  Generations, Literature, Rage

• The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.

  Annie Dillard

  People, Literature, Body

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.83, Canongate Books

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