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Annie Quotes: "I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail."

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.



Annie Quotes: "I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door."

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.




Annie Quotes: "I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames."

I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.



Annie Quotes: "Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain."

Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.




Annie Quotes: "I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains"

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains



Annie Quotes: "The irrational haunts the metaphysical."

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.



Annie Quotes: "The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader."

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.




Annie Quotes: "Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor."

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.



Annie Quotes: "Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus."

Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.



Annie Quotes: "Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them."

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.



Annie Quotes: "Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live."

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.



Annie Quotes: "You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself."

You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.




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

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



Annie Quotes: "Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets."

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.



Annie Quotes: "No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities."

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.



Annie Quotes: "What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world."

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.



Annie Quotes: "If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself."

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.



Annie Quotes: "Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.



Annie Quotes: "Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?"

Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?



Annie Quotes: "The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful."

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.



Annie Quotes: "God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent."

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.



Annie Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain."

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.



Annie Quotes: "I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again."

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.



Annie Quotes: "Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine."

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.



Annie Quotes: "Write as if you are dying."

Write as if you are dying.



Annie Quotes: "Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky."

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.



Annie Quotes: "The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living."

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.



Annie Quotes: "People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books."

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.



Annie Quotes: "Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself."

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.



Annie Quotes: "For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town."

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.



Annie Quotes: "Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time."

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.



Annie Quotes: "Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it."

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.



Annie Quotes: "What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration."

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.



Annie Quotes: "I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it."

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.



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

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



Annie Quotes: "I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else."

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.



Annie Quotes: "In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage."

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.



Annie Quotes: "You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins."

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.



Annie Quotes: "Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away."

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.



Annie Quotes: "Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it."

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



Annie Quotes: "The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before."

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.



Annie Quotes: "I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it."

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.



Annie Quotes: "I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note."

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.



Annie Quotes: "Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes."

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.



Annie Quotes: "I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious."

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.



Annie Quotes: "For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it."

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.



Annie Quotes: "I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring."

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.



Annie Quotes: "I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero."

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.