Annie Dillard Quotes

Annie Dillard is an American author known for her lyrical and introspective works of nonfiction and fiction. Her book "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, showcasing her keen observations of nature and existential reflections. Dillard's writing combines vivid imagery, philosophical musings, and a deep sense of spirituality. She has inspired readers with her distinctive voice and the way she illuminates the beauty and mystery of the natural world.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

There is a muscular energy in sunlight correspondi... -Annie Dillard

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

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.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

You can't test courage cautiously.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

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 Quotes

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