Books Quote by Jenna Ortega

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

— John Burroughs

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

— Chris Meledandri

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau…

— Pico Iyer

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but…

— Jack Vance

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

— Paula Spencer

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

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…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but…

— Rian Johnson