Annie Dillard
I’m going to have to quote John Gruber quoting Annie Dillard, just because this is so good:
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
Via Daring Fireball.
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Mykala +1
I love Annie Dillard in a nearly-romantic way. She is amazing. If I could write like one person in the whole world it would probably be her.
Alexander Micek
Well, it says here: “It took her eight months to turn the note-cards into the book. Towards the end of the eight months, she was so absorbed that she sometimes wrote for fifteen hours a day, cut off from society without interest in current events (like the Watergate scandal). The finished book brought her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 at the age of twenty-nine.”
I’m intrigued.