The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
More Quotes from Annie Dillard:
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful . . .Annie Dillard
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Annie Dillard
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, If I did not know about god and sin, would I go to hell. No, said the priest, not if you did not know, Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me.
Annie Dillard
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie Dillard
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower are they nature's privileged pets.
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
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