Best quotes by Annie Dillard on World

Checkout quotes by Annie Dillard on World

• ‟ 'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

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

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• ‟ The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

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• ‟ The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

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• ‟ The writer studies literature, not the world.

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• ‟ How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

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

  - Annie Dillard