Annie Dillard

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#women #education

Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#nature

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life #imagination

Get to work. 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. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#imagination #writing #writing-life #imagination

This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#profligacy #nature

No one ever said it would be easy ↗

— Annie Dillard

#inspirational

Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will? ↗

— Annie Dillard

#courage

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#completely #crowd #family #father #fringe

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

Much has been written about the life of the mind. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#been #life #mind #much #written