What did Annie Dillard mean by: The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. - Annie Dillard Author · USA Copy
+ Write as if you are dying. Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Annie Dillard, Dying, Writing, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ When I first read the words ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ when I was 10, I thought I was both. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Introvert, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world’s skin ever expanding? Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, House, Skins, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ The surest sign of age is loneliness. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, Annie Dillard, Age, Loneliness, Time, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb. Feraz Zeid, July 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Annie Dillard, Verbs, Writing, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Beauty, Love, Religion, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ The way you live your days is the way you live your life. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Annie Dillard, Live Your Life, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you’ve destroyed it. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Memories, Writing, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France