top of page
Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard

"There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

Standard 
 Customized
"There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."

Writing

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

Art

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"You can't test courage cautiously."

Courage

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."

Society

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."

Family

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart."

Life

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

Knowledge

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."

Discipline

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again."

Love

Quote_1.png
Annie Dillard
"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned."

Philosophy

bottom of page