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Annie Dillard

5 quotes · Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Writing Life, Teaching a Stone to Talk

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek · this quote
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life · this quote
You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life · this quote
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek · this quote
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews.
— Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk · this quote

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