Annie Dillard

Born :30 April 1945

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Annie Dillard born on 30th April 1945. As of today 7th May 2025 , we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 55 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Annie Dillard

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If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

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.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

People love pretty much the same things best. 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.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

Write as if you were dying.

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.