Quotes by Stephen Dobyns

Stephen Dobyns

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Actions Have Consequences

Ignorance

Responsibility

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

Attention

Helping

Miserable

Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass – -a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited.

Book

Fall

Stock Car Racing

I can’t believe there is a poet who hasn’t eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It’s part of the process of selection.

Believe

Next Day

One Day

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn’t read “Middlemarch” before.

Ashamed

Eliot

Middlemarch

I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I’d rather not accumulate superstitions.

Fall

Morning

Moving

I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn’t read like Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair,” which is so well written and funny.

College

School

Writing

I never read Ford Madox Ford’s “The Good Soldier.” I’ve been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That’s one of them.

Book

Reading

Years

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early ’60s and when Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” came out it knocked me off my feet.

Ariel

Feet

Remember

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.

Mistake

Reading

Thinking

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Actions Have Consequences

Ariel

Ashamed

Attention

Believe

Betrayal

Book

Children

College

Eliot

Emotional

Fall

Feet

Fiction

Giving

Hate

Helping

Hook

Humility

Hurt

Ignorance

Jobs

Long

Memories

Middlemarch

Miserable

Mistake

Morning

Moving

Needs

Next Day

Night

Novelists

One Day

People

Poet

Reading

Reason

Remember

Responsibility

School

Silly

Sleep

Sometimes

Sound

Stock Car Racing

Taken

Thinking

Village

World

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Quotes by Stephen Dobyns

Stephen Dobyns

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

I can’t believe there is a poet who hasn’t eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It’s part of the process of selection.

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn’t read “Middlemarch” before.

I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I’d rather not accumulate superstitions.

I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn’t read like Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair,” which is so well written and funny.

I never read Ford Madox Ford’s “The Good Soldier.” I’ve been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That’s one of them.

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early ’60s and when Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” came out it knocked me off my feet.

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.

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