Annie Dillard Quotes


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. - Annie Dillard



You can't test courage cautiously. - Annie Dillard



There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. - Annie Dillard



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



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