by Susan Barnes | 3 Feb 2016 | Book Reviews
I first came across Annie Dillard when I discovered a quote which I liked very much. I wrote about it here. Then at Christmas I was given, The Writing Life as a present. The book is a series of vignettes describing an author’s writing life. By giving...
by Susan Barnes | 15 Jun 2005 | Quoting Other Writers
Do you ever think how scary some of the songs we sing in church are? Annie Dillard must have thought about the songs at her church. She is quoted as saying this about worship services, “Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke?...