Quotations From ANNIE DILLARD

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• 11.

  Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. author. The Writing Life, ch. 3 (1989).
• 12.

  Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

  Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. author. The Writing Life, ch. 2 (1989). On the kind of study a writer needs.
  
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