Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard


Annie Dillard -
- A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

Annie Dillard - "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard - _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
- There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.