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Annie Dillard Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear.”
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek(Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Tagged: Reading, Writing, Passion, Enlightenment, Understanding
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. ”
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Tagged: Life, Writing, Time
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
— Annie Dillard, The Living
Tagged: Books, Reading, Living, Life
“Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin.”
— Annie Dillard, Writing Life
Tagged: Being A Writer, Writing Tips, Finding Your Voice, Finding Your Craft, Honing Your Craft
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.”
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Tagged: Life, Writing, Time, schedule, Routine
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