American - Author | April 30, 1945 -
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
Annie Dillard
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If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
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'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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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.
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