Appetite Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was…

— Anne Stevenson

“Years ago I conducted a course in fiction writing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and we wanted such distinguished and busy…

— Dale Carnegie

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

“This summer, a lot of what I was teaching was against Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence , very broadly speaking, this anxiety of sounding too…

— Tony Leuzzi

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

— Garth Greenwell

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

“Is it that important? Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do…

— Rainbow Rowell

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

“Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do have? Should we teach…

— Rainbow Rowell

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as…

— Alan Bennett