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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. — Annie Dillard

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). — Annie Dillard

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time. — Annie Dillard

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears. — Annie Dillard

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard

This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent. — Annie Dillard

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. — Annie Dillard

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. — Annie Dillard

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. — Annie Dillard

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. — Annie Dillard

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? — Annie Dillard

I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it. — Annie Dillard

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid? — Annie Dillard

It was a clear, picturesque day, a February day without could, without emotion or spirit, like a beautiful women with an empty face. — Annie Dillard

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door. — Annie Dillard

Innocence is a better world. — Annie Dillard

Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath. — Annie Dillard

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. — Annie Dillard

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. — Annie Dillard

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. — Annie Dillard

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard

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

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else. — Annie Dillard

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. — Annie Dillard

One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. — Annie Dillard

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities. — Annie Dillard

Are you living just a little and calling that life? — Annie Dillard

They dissolved when I tried to inspect them, or dimmed, or slid dizzyingly away, like a ship's stern yawing down the dark lee slope of a wave. — Annie Dillard

Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets? — Annie Dillard

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. — Annie Dillard

I like the slants of light; I'm a collector. — Annie Dillard

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing. — Annie Dillard

An honest work generates its own power; a dishonest work tries to rob power from the cataracts of the given. — Annie Dillard

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

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. — Annie Dillard

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. — Annie Dillard

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. — Annie Dillard

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding? — Annie Dillard

Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall. — Annie Dillard

It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away. — Annie Dillard

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. — Annie Dillard

This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time. — Annie Dillard

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind. — Annie Dillard

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. — Annie Dillard

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

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. — Annie Dillard

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain. — Annie Dillard

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. — Annie Dillard

Life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength. — Annie Dillard

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains — Annie Dillard

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. — Annie Dillard

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. — Annie Dillard

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. — Annie Dillard

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. — Annie Dillard

It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick. — Annie Dillard

1. Only a total unself-consciousness will permit me to live with myself (202). — Annie Dillard

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. — Annie Dillard

You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting. — Annie Dillard

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. — Annie Dillard

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. — Annie Dillard

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being. — Annie Dillard

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. — Annie Dillard

Lick a finger: feel the now. — Annie Dillard

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. — Annie Dillard

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. — Annie Dillard

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. — Annie Dillard

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine. — Annie Dillard

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader. — Annie Dillard