Annie Dillard Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Mystery, Ifs

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.85, Canongate Books

• 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 that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Inspire, Mind

• 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

  Sweet, Good Life, Reading

• 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

  Running, Reading, Thinking

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.44, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Light, Sight

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.120, Canongate Books

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