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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Write
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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.
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Write as if you are dying.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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Your feelings are none of your business.
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People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
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Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
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The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.
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How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
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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.
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Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
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