"The subject matter of the stories on the surface… there seem to be a number of stories about travel." ― Kenneth Koch Topic(s): Teacher More From Kenneth Koch "I love painting and music, of course. I don’t know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I’ve certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn’t read it until I was in my late 20s." "I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world." "I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry." More In Teacher "As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise."― Joyce Carol Oates "The music business doesn’t interest me anymore."― Lou Reed "Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."― Antonio Tabucchi