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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor (Annie Dillard Quotes)
The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Johnston’s books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read (Annie Dillard Quotes)
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end (Annie Dillard Quotes)
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence (Annie Dillard Quotes)
I’m a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else (Annie Dillard Quotes)
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past (Annie Dillard Quotes)
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars (Annie Dillard Quotes)
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live (Annie Dillard Quotes)
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? (Annie Dillard Quotes)
I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers (Annie Dillard Quotes)
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 (Annie Dillard Quotes)
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 (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark (Annie Dillard Quotes)
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker (Annie Dillard Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable (Annie Dillard Quotes)
I woke at intervals until... the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not (Annie Dillard Quotes)
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling (Annie Dillard Quotes)
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books... so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes (Annie Dillard Quotes)
I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous (Annie Dillard Quotes)
Every day is a God, each day is a God, and holiness holds forth in time (Annie Dillard Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time (Annie Dillard Quotes)