Whitty

Member Since: Apr 13, 2010

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About Me

I love reading and writing. I've been a serious writer of poetry since I turned nine.

  • Writing Level: Trying to get published for the first time
  • Age: 18-25
  • Gender: Female
  • Hobbies/Interests: Painting, playing piano, studying Eliot, Warhol, and Zizek.

Favorites

Authors

  • T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, J.D. Salinger, Annie Dillard, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Henery David Thoreau, William Butler Yeats, Micheal Chabon, Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Austen, Arther Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Sappho, Slavoj Zizekfind at: Amazon

Books

  • Lolita- Nabokov find at: Amazon
  • The Writing Life- Dillard find at: Amazon
  • The Maytrees- Dillard find at: Amazon
  • Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man- Joyce find at: Amazon
  • Dublines- Joyce find at: Amazon
  • Mrs. Dalloway- Woolf find at: Amazon
  • To the Lighthouse- Woolf find at: Amazon
  • A Room of Ones Own- Woolf find at: Amazon
  • The Bell Jar- Plath find at: Amazon
  • Franny and Zooey- Salinger find at: Amazon
  • Catcher in the Rye- Salinger find at: Amazon
  • Mysteries of Pittsburgh- Chabon find at: Amazon
  • The Amazing dventures of Kavalier and Clay- Chabon find at: Amazon
  • Short Stories of Flannery O'Conner find at: Amazon
  • Short Stories of Fitzgerald find at: Amazon
  • The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald find at: Amazon
  • A Farwell to Arms- Hemmingway find at: Amazon
  • Short Stories of Primo Lev find at: Amazon
  • My Name is Asher Lev- Potok find at: Amazon
  • Hamlet- Shakespeare find at: Amazon
  • The Tempest- Shakespeare find at: Amazon
  • Walden- Henery David Thoreau find at: Amazon
  • East of Eden- Steinbeck find at: Amazon
  • The Bluest Eye- Morrison find at: Amazon
  • The Stranger- Camus find at: Amazon
  • The Cantebury Tales- Chaucer find at: Amazon
  • Candide- Voltaire find at: Amazon
  • Atlas Shrugged- Rand find at: Amazon
  • Pride and Prejudice- Austen find at: Amazon
  • Frankenstein- Shelley find at: Amazon
  • The Illiad- Homer find at: Amazon
  • Beowulf find at: Amazon
  • Grendel- John Gardnerfind at: Amazon

Quotes

  • "Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun." - Lady Gaga
  • “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. “
  • -Andy Warhol
  • “Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
  • -Andy Warhol
  • “I am a deeply superficial person.” –Andy Warhol
  • "The word within a word, unable to speak a word,/ Swaddled with darkness. In the juvenescence of the year/ Came Christ the Tiger" T.S. Eliot Gerontion
  • "To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition." T.S. Eliot Gerontion
  • "Because I do not hope to turn again." Eliot, Ash-Wednesday
  • "I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am terribly limited." Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
  • " In the room women come and