Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
Annie DillardThe secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
Annie DillardI had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
Annie DillardWhy are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
Annie DillardIt is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
Annie Dillard