Annie Dillard Quotes - Page 13

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• It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Small Rooms, World

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• 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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  Mind, Doe, Would Be

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• Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, People, Choices

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

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  Book, Firsts, Excitement

  "Write Till You Drop". www.nytimes.com. May 28, 1989.

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• But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

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  Home, Sigh Of Relief, Height

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.

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  Strong, Morning, Butterfly

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• What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

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  Innocence, Spirit, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.83, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

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  Silly, Writing, Long Ago

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• Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

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  Mind, Odor, Film

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• All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

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  Book, Extravagant, Pure

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

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  Memories, Writing, Easy

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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