Latest Annie Dillard Quotes from Interviews

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• Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

  Annie Dillard

  Trying, Ashes, Causes

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

• I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

  Annie Dillard

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

• I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

  Annie Dillard

  Years, Quitting, Form

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

• People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

  Annie Dillard

  Vacation, People, Remember

• The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

  Annie Dillard

  Creative, Painting, Process

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

• Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Writing, Easy

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

• I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

  Annie Dillard

  Flirting, Men, Doe

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.