I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

— Annie Dillard (b. 1945), Schriftstellerin, Essayistin

Source: The Writing Life (1989)

Topics: Work & Vocation, Patience & Waiting, Suffering & the Question of God

Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (* 1945) ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Essayistin, die über zwei Jahrzehnte lang Literatur an der Wesleyan University lehrte. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihr mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnetes Werk „Pilgrim at Tinker Creek“, in dem sie Naturbeobachtungen mit Fragen nach Leid, Schönheit und christlicher Mystik verbindet. Für Bibelleser regen ihre Texte zu geistlicher Wachheit und Ehrfurcht vor Gottes Größe an, wenngleich ihre theologische Ungebundenheit in konservativ-evangelikalen Kreisen auch auf Vorbehalte stieß.

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