Quotes by : Annie Dillard

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling,....

Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time,....

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs,"....

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

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any more....

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female....

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret....

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed....

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re....

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know."....