“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”

— Annie Dillard

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all." by Annie Dillard?

Annie Dillard photo

Annie Dillard63

American writer 1945

Related quotes

“This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

As quoted in Instructor, Vol. 103 (1992), p. 201

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Write about what you don't know about what you know.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

““What was all that about?”
“It’s an occupational hazard… You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.””

Michael Swanwick book The Iron Dragon's Daughter

Source: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), Chapter 15 (p. 262; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)

“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”

Orson Scott Card Sarah

Source: Sarah

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Related topics