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. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
Annie DillardThe mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
Annie DillardAlmost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
Annie DillardThe sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
Annie Dillard