Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillardis an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth30 April 1945
CityPittsburgh, PA
skulls people feelings
The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.
heart gossip events
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
rumor violence mystery
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...
hay tomatoes cain
The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.
letting-go stars instant
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
sojourners vagabonds fugitive
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
damage difficult recalls
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
block silence world
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
destiny silence heritage
Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
oxygen blood iron
All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.
healing abet creation
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
schedules chaos catching
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
blue mountain world
I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
pain waste mystery
Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.