Quotes by : Annie Dillard

Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white....

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points,....

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth....

The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it....

I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely....

If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her....

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does....

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was....

We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake....