Anne Dillard > Quotes

“She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Anne Dillard

“How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives”
― Anne Dillard, The Living

“The new Episcopalian and Catholic liturgies include a segment called "passing the peace." Many things can go wrong here. I know of one congregation in New York which fired its priest because he insisted on their passing the peace- which involves nothing more than shaking hands with your neighbors in the pew. The men and women of this small congregation had limits to their endurance; passing the peace was beyond their limits. They could not endure shaking hands with people to whom they bore lifelong grudges. They fired the priest and found a new one sympathetic to their needs" Anne Dillard- Teaching a Stone to Talk- An Expedition to the Pole”
― Anne Dillard

“She read books as one would breath air, to fill up and live.”
― Anne Dillard, The Pilot: For 1937; Published by Senior Class Leaksville High School

“She reads books as one would breathe air,
to fill up and live.”
― Anne Dillard

“She reads as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Anne Dillard, The Living

“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If you, however, want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it.”
― Anne Dillard