Annie Dillard is our greatest nature writer. But her writing on writing always floored me. I used to assign "To Fashion a Text" to my grad students and the discussions would always land on this wonderful meditation. We are richer for her willingness to trade memories for words.

'I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim....." - Virginia Woolf
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