Annie Dillard Way Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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 It has been replaced by this changeling.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 we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

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

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.