Quote: Why are we reading? (Dillard)
March 31st, 2006 | Published in Books & Reading, Quotes | 1 Comment
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?…. Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?
—Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (1989), pp. 72-73
January 11th, 2007 at 7:33 am (#)
We are reading because we have a lot of interesting books! :-)