Picture Quotes I couldn't unpeach the peaches. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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 It has been replaced by this changeling.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 DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as... Read more » —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. —Annie DillardWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this