- Annie Dillard was born in 1945 in the USA. Annie is a writer, known for The Tree with the Lights in It (2007). Annie was previously married to Robert D. Richardson.
- SpouseRobert D. Richardson(1988 - June 16, 2020) (his death)
- Inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1997.
- On writing: When you write you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow, or this time next year....
- On love: There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
- On art: How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it? But the world without light is wasteland and chaos...
- On spirit: Innocence is the spirit's self-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object.
- On spirit: Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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