No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
Annie DillardThe secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
Annie DillardThe more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
Annie DillardOur life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf
Annie DillardThe silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
Annie Dillard