"The Writing Life" Quotes
Annie Dillard reflects on the challenges and rewards of the writing process in this contemplative and insightful book.
writing | 113 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.
You can't test courage cautiously.
The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive.
The writer must be a world for the words to inhabit.
Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it?
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
The reason to perfect a piece of prose as it progresses—to secure each sentence before building on it—is that original writing fashions a form.
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients.
