Annie Dillard Quotes About Memories

• Hay que evitar los lugares de trabajo atractivos. Uno quiere una habitación sin vistas, para que la imaginación pueda encontrarse con la memoria en la oscuridad.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Work, Writing

• Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Annie Dillard, Robert Atwan (1988). “The Best American Essays”

• I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. 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, cutting us off at both ends.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.80, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Writing, Easy

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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