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Annie Dillard quotes

American Author April 30, 1945

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Annie Dillard quote: "It was less like seeing than like being for the first time..."
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. Annie Dillard
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one. Annie Dillard
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Write about winter in the summer."
Write about winter in the summer. Annie Dillard
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. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop..."
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live...."
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. Annie Dillard
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television;..."
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. Annie Dillard
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of..."
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. Annie Dillard
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. Annie Dillard
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your..."
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live."
She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. Annie Dillard

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