Top 55 Quotes by Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

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.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

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.