“Isn't that why you want to shoot yourself? To make a protest against change?” — Stephen Dobyns Change Copy Share Image
“If he could not find beauty, nothing else would be worth finding.” — Stephen Dobyns Beauty Copy Share Image
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment… — Stephen Dobyns Eggs Copy Share Image
My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there.… — Stephen Dobyns Angry Copy Share Image
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend… — Stephen Dobyns Book Copy Share Image
“A work of art gives testimony to what it is to be a human being. It bears witness, it extracts meaning. A… — Stephen Dobyns Art Copy Share Image
“It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the… — Stephen Dobyns God knows Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Dobyns Book Copy Share Image
“Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.. in such a way do the days pass.. I… — Stephen Dobyns Books Copy Share Image
It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him. — Stephen Dobyns Behinds Copy Share Image
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element… — Stephen Dobyns Comic Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a… — Stephen Dobyns College Copy Share Image
Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's… — Stephen Dobyns Books Copy Share Image
“Like this week.” “So you’re Carl’s replacement?” “I guess you could say that.” — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house… — Stephen Dobyns Fall Copy Share Image
They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing… — Stephen Dobyns Fear Copy Share Image
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns Emotional Copy Share Image
Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you. — Stephen Dobyns Estates Copy Share Image
Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else. — Stephen Dobyns Can do Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child… — Stephen Dobyns Awful Copy Share Image
“You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)” — Stephen Dobyns Ignorance Copy Share Image
Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28) — Stephen Dobyns Action Copy Share Image
