Stephen Dobyns Quotes - Page 2

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• Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass - -a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Fall, Stock Car Racing

  Stephen Dobyns, “Pursuit”

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• He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ocean, Good Luck, Thinking

  Stephen Dobyns (1984). “Black dog, red dog: poems”, Owl Books

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• Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Fiction

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ashamed, Middlemarch, Eliot

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Writing, School, College

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Feet, Ariel, Remember

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• 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

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• I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People."
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  Stephen Dobyns

  Independent, People, Winner

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Poet

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Attention, Helping, Miserable

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