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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Both Extrovert First Introvert Read Thought Words

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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Field Forest Grass Identical Man Met Mind Never Shaken Who

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Animal Least Plants Subject Think Ugly Word World

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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: After Alone Best He Looking Loves Subjects Writer

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Ambitious Big Book Essays Fit Learn Long Makes Many More Narrative Nonfiction Novel Possess Pour Project Sense Stories Than Write You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 30th, 1945

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