Quotes by Annie Dillard

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

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.