Background Image
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, i have always admired emily dickinson and henry david thoreau.
-Joyce Carol Oates
Please Wait....
Translating....

I Have So Many Favorite Writers, It's

Joyce Carol Oates
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, i have always admired emily dickinson and henry david thoreau.
Views: 6
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Classic Select David Thoreau

More From Joyce Carol Oates

There are instances: [henry david] thoreau read [john] wordsworth, [john] muir read thoreau, teddy roosevelt read muir, and you got national parks. it took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.
Land Imagination People
Even the best critical writing on emily dickinson underestimates her. she is frightening. to come to her directly from dante, spenser, blake, and baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.
Writing Ideas Hands
I have a little tiny emily dickinson so big that i carry in my pocket everywhere. and you just read three poems of emily. she is so brave. she is so strong. she is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. i feel better.
Sexy Strong Feel Better
Henry david thoreau is very independent-minded, very iconoclastic, and had quite a corrosive sense of humor. i think that i probably have grown up to have a thoreauvian perspective on many things. though in other ways i live a life he would not have approved of. he believed to simplify, simplify, simplify. make your life very clear and plain and meditative and not confused. sometimes my life, in fact, is confused.
Confused Independent Thinking
Great artists can be uncertain. of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. emily dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day jerome robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. but all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. what they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
Artist Decision Coins
While reading writers of great formulatory power — henry james, santayana, proust — i find i can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. reading henry james, for example, i have muttered to myself, "c’mon, henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so i can get some reading done." i may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.
Reading Numbers People
Similar Quotes
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. after a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
Running Book Reading
He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
Reading Writing Men
Let's deal with reality. the reality is that we will be reading miranda rights to the corpse of osama bin laden. he will never appear in an american courtroom.
Reading Reality Rights
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my god, food is important too.
Reading Thinking Important

Trending Author

Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson
Ashton Eaton
Ashton Eaton
Max Baucus
Max Baucus
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Nicolas Berggruen
Nicolas Berggruen
Peggy Fleming
Peggy Fleming
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation