Annie Dillard

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

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

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

“Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.”

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

"Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now."

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

“If... you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."

[Annie Dillard @anniedillardGA]

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by."