Sep 21, 2026
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard | Quote of the Day
Annie Dillard — the Pittsburgh-born author whose 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and made her, at 28, the youngest woman ever to win it, and who died on September 15, 2026, at 81 — on the arithmetic that quietly governs a life: how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. From The Writing Life (1989), it is less a productivity tip than a call to attention — what we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.