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
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
- Annie Dillard
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- Annie Dillard
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
- 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
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
- Annie Dillard
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