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Annie Dillard
American
Author
Born:
Apr 30
,
1945
Alone
Life
Think
Time
World
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
Annie Dillard
Pure
Extravagant
Books
Out
Up
Ended
Plain
Started
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
Annie Dillard
Mind
Before
Living
Indeed
Would
Would-Be
Something
Writer
Put
Call
Does
Owner
Dies
Hard
Much has been written about the life of the mind.
Annie Dillard
Life
Mind
Has-Been
About
Written
Been
Much
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
Annie Dillard
Man
Mind
Met
Field
Grass
Shaken
Never
Identical
Forest
Acre
Who
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
Annie Dillard
You
Book
Long
Pour
Big
Sense
Project
Possess
More
Write
Learn
Makes
Narrative
Nonfiction
Fit
Ambitious
Than
Essays
Stories
Many
Novel
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