Annie Dillard Way Quotations

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

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.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.