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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.
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The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
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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.
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I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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Skin was earth it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
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I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
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Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
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