Annie Dillard: Quotes about books

Annie Dillard is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on books.

Annie Dillard: 126 quotes8 likes

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

Annie Dillard book The Living

Source: The Living

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”

Source: The Writing Life

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”

Annie Dillard book The Living

Source: The Living

“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.”

Source: The Writing Life