Writers to emulate, a non-exhaustive list.
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Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard asks a question about beauty in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that nearly stops my beating heart. She frames the question with an Eskimo story told by Farley Mowat about a man, his young wife, and the girl’s mother at the top of the world. Jealous of her daughter’s love, the old woman strangles [...]
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Who wants to be gutted like a fish? Not I. But it’s how I describe the experience of reading Annie Dillard’s most recent novel The Maytrees: spliced and filleted by her words. Dillard’s writing puts the mind to work. There’s more mileage in any one paragraph than in most books. Her command of language is [...]
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Thomas Merton wrote, ‘There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.’ There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from [...]
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