What did Annie Dillard mean by: All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. - Annie Dillard Author · USA Copy
+ Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Annie Dillard, Inspiration, Time, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you’ve destroyed it. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Memories, Writing, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Annie Dillard, Joy, Light, Prayer, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Memories, Past, Writing, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Air, Clouds, Spiritual Life, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Brain, Break, Heart, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world’s skin ever expanding? Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, House, Skins, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail. Feraz Zeid, October 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Annie Dillard, Failure, Soul, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. - Lin Yutang Writer · China
