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The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. - Annie Dillard Attribution: Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. author. The Writing Life, ch. 5 (1989). Using painting as an exemplar of all creative endeavors.

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Annie Dillard

Titles by Annie Dillard:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

eNotes:

• ‘‘The Waters of Separation’’: Myth and Ritual in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
• Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
• Perceptions of Nature: Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

Encyclopedia:

• Dillard, Annie (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Annie Dillard (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Annie Dillard (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Dillard, Annie (Vol. 115) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Dillard, Annie (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Annie Dillard receives Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Annie Dillard publishes Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Annie Dillard is born