Annie warned me being a writer would be a difficult life choice. I get it now.
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“Dillard’s meta-insight… is another manner of seeing. She brings the same attention to consciousness as she does the physical world.”
“Annie Dillard taught a generation of readers and writers that attention is a moral act, not just a literary technique.”
“Dillard gave us all permission to think big thoughts–what does it mean to be alive? Or awake? And what do the rivers think about all of that? Or the squirrels? Or cedar waxwings?”
