Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (b 1945) is a US writer, poet, and novelist. She also taught in the English department of Wesleyan University. She won Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1975 for her work "Pilgrim and Tinker Creek" (1974). She is best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirity till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

• Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

• The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun - but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

- Holy the Firm

Yona Wallach

Nearby pages
Annie Keary, Annie Lennox, Annihilation, Anniston, Anniversary