Annie Dillard Quotes About Summer

Quotes about: Summer

• Write about winter in the summer.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Writing, Winter

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

• So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Mother, Running

• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

• Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Spring, Teaching

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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