“Annie Dillard once wrote, “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” I think about this a lot when I’m planning my day and what sort of pleasure I might suck out of its marrow during these tumultuous times of constant upheaval and war. Sometimes that means noticing even the most mundane of tasks in order to know we are alive, that we are living.” LifeJoyTasksDaily LifeActivitiesAnnie Dillard Author:Ada Limon
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.” BeautyGraceAnnie Dillard Author:Annie Dillard
“Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.” WritingArtArtistReadingLiteratureReaderDisciplineWriterReadWriteWriting AdviceArtistryThe Writing LifeAnnie Dillard Book:The Writing Life Source: The Writing Life
“The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.” WritingAuthorWriterWriteWriting AdviceThe Writing LifeWipAnnie Dillard Book:The Writing Life Source: The Writing Life
“You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.” WritingReadingSpaceReaderAuthorWriterWriteWriting AdvicePersonal SpaceReadsThe Writing LifeAnnie Dillard Author:Annie Dillard