So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sa — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sa — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sa — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sa — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sa — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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