Anthology Quote by Theodora Goss

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a…

— John Keats

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

— Laurence Housman

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

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the…

— Nat Hentoff

When I was young, I really identified with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the character of Jo. The book was written at…

— Hillary Clinton

“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like…

— Terri Windling

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on…

— Adriana Trigiani

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey…

— Lance Loud

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time…

— Sharon Olds