Background Image
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.
-Stephen Dobyns
Please Wait....
Translating....

I Majored In English In College And

Stephen Dobyns
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.
Views: 4
Topic
Writing
School
College
More From Stephen Dobyns
Each Thing I Do, I Rush Through, So I Can Do Something Else.
Speeding Cars
Can Do Something
Can Do
Actions Have Consequences. Ignorance About The Nature Of Those Actions Does Not Free A Person From Responsibility For The Consequences. (28)
Ignorance
Responsibility
Actions Have Consequences
Sometimes Someone Will Tell Me About An Author I've Never Heard Of Before And That Will Send Me To That Person. That's How I Discovered Thomas Bernhard, An Austrian Novelist Whose Novels Tend To Be One Long Rant.
Long
Novelists
Sometimes
I Had Not Read George Eliot, So Read A Few. I Felt Ashamed I Hadn't Read "middlemarch" Before.
Ashamed
Middlemarch
Eliot
I Had A Period When I Read Nobel Prize Winners. I Figured They Had To Be Good. I Discovered Some People I Didn't Know About, Like The Icelandic Writer Halldor Laxness, Who Wrote "independent People." .
Independent
People
Winner
Trending Author
Phyllis Diller
Tom Ford
Jeff Sessions
Joan Lunden
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Raymond Carver
Category
Information