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Annie Dillard

The Abundance

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  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    pain is God’s megaphone
  • ayelinaayhas quoted7 years ago
    THE QUR’AN, SURA OF THE COW
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    A writer, though, looking for subjects asks not after what he loves best, but what he alone loves at all. Strange seizures best us. Frank Conroy loved his yo-yo tricks, Emily Dickinson her slant of light; Richard Selzer loves the glistening peritoneum; Faulkner, the muddy bottom of a little girl’s drawers just visible when she’s up a pear tree.
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    Ralph Ellison studied Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. Thoreau loved Homer; Eudora Welty loved Chekhov. Faulkner described his debt to Sherwood Anderson and Joyce; E. M. Forster, his debt to Jane Austen and Proust. By contrast, if you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, “Nobody’s.” In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened, and its deepest mystery probed
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    PEOPLE LOVE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THINGS BEST.
    A writer, though, looking for subjects asks not after what he loves best, but what he alone loves at all. Strange seizures best us. Frank Conroy loved his yo-yo tricks, Emily Dickinson her slant of light; Richard Selzer loves the glistening peritoneum; Faulkner, the muddy bottom of a little girl’s drawers just visible when she’s up a pear tree
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    PEOPLE LOVE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THINGS BEST.
    A writer, though, looking for subjects asks not after what he loves best, but what he alone loves at all. Strange seizures best us. Frank Conroy loved his yo-yo tricks, Emily Dickinson her slant of light; Richard Selzer loves the glistening peritoneum; Faulkner, the muddy bottom of a little girl’s drawers just visible when she’s up a pear tree.
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
  • Rara Rizalhas quoted7 years ago
    Have you noticed yet that you will die? Do you remember, remember, remember? Then you may feel your life as a weekend, a weekend you cannot extend.
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