Annie Dillard Quotes
I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. Harper & Row, 1989.
She had a concept and a plan whereby people in their late teens and trenties would work very hard--long days rather than shorten the work day. But thereafter, if they wished, they would recieve a basic living and would not have to work thereafter. For much work sustained concentration over long hours is not only necessary but is preferred by many of the workers--scientists, scholars, entrapraneurs, computer programmers, are just a few. This is what many very successful people have been choosing--they just change careers. Some ironically dpend as many hours at the second and third career as the first.
Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
