"In my conversation I make literary references all the time and in my head I make them even more I can hear Joyce and Shakespeare and Rilke. So why can't I use this in my writing? It's such a delight. It makes me really sad when there are so many readers who think it is off-putting to do allusions like that."
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Maxine Hong Kingston, in an 1991 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)
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James Joyce
1882 – 1941
irischer Schriftsteller
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