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Annie Dillard quotes about reading

American Author April 30, 1945

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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so... Annie Dillard
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place... Annie Dillard
Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. Annie Dillard
Children...wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride,; they wake like people brought back from cardiac arrest or from drowning: in medias res, surrounded by familiar people and objects, equipped with a hundred skills. They know the neighborhood, they can read and write English, they are old hands at the commonplace mysteries, and yet they feel themselves to have just stepped off the boat, just... Annie Dillard
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life. Annie Dillard
Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading--that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's? Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read."
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read. Annie Dillard
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live...."
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. Annie Dillard
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television;..."
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of..."
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. Annie Dillard
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live."
She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. Annie Dillard

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