Top 55 Quotes by Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously.

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

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

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

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Write as if you were dying.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.