The Annie Dillard Reader Quotes

“She read books as one would breath air to fill up and live”
― Annie Dillard, The Annie Dillard Reader

“Deduction, then, is possible—though no longer fashionable.”
― Annie Dillard, The Annie Dillard Reader

“One wonders, after reading a great many such firsthand accounts, if polar explorers were not somehow chosen for the empty and solemn splendor of their prose styles—or even if some eminent Victorians, examining their own prose styles, realized, perhaps dismayed, that from the look of it, they would have to go in for polar exploration.”
― Annie Dillard, The Annie Dillard Reader