Annie Dillard Quotes & Sayings
55 most famous Annie Dillard quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
“Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.”
“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.”
“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.”
“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
“The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.”
“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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