Annie Dillard Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Doors, Discipline

• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Feelings, Quality, Progress

• If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

  Annie Dillard

  Understanding, Progress, Novelists

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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