About Quote by Pico Iyer

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

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

“As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives…

— Scott Borgman

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

— Marilynne Robinson

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Poets write magistic and compelling words on paper. But authors, they write magistic and compelling words on souls.”

— Kayla.M.f

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first author or transcendentalist that I connected with and resonated with. And I found that when I was in…

— Jenna Ortega

“In books we have the compendium of all human experience. We may use them or neglect them as we will, but if we use…

— Sir Basil Blackwell

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe…

— Edward Abbey