"Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful"
- Joan Didion
About this Quote
This quote by Joan Didion talks to the power of Theodore Dreiser's writing. Regardless of having "no style," Dreiser was able to astound Didion and also maintain her enthralled in his novel An American Tragedy. She was so taken by the tale that she secured herself in her room for an entire weekend break, incapable to place the book down. This speaks with the power of Dreiser's writing, which was able to attract Didion in despite its absence of design. It additionally talks to the power of literary works generally, as it can transfer visitors to another globe and keep them enthralled for hours at a time.
This quote is written / told by Joan Didion somewhere between December 5, 1934 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA.
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