Author: Ivan Doig

Cites

• Jack Kerouac (1)
  • IN: Last Bus to Wisdom (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -- it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
    FROM: On the Road, (1957), Novel, US
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Sweet Thunder (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta... I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
    FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
• Robinson Jeffers (1)
  • IN: The Sea Runners (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The old ocean at the land's foot, the vast Gray extension beyond the long white violence... And the gray air haunted with hawks: This place is the noblest thing I have ever seen.
    FROM: The Place for No Story, (1932), Poem, US