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The Writing Life (1989)
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If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
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There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.
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Every morning you climb several flights of stairs, enter your study, open the French doors, and slide your desk and chair out into the middle of the air.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.
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Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.
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Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.
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Annie Dillard
Born:
April 30, 1945
(age 78)
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