Stephen Dobyns Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Mistake, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the French court of Louis XIV that are incredibly detailed. They are books that on every page you say, "Wow, think of that."

  Stephen Dobyns

  Brother, Reading, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Reading, Village

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Reading, Giving, Would Be

  Source: epaper.bostonglobe.com

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