psychological state and the interior tension within. Lackey notes that, from Ivan Turgenev, Woolf drew the lessons that there are multiple "I's" when writing a novel, and the novelist needed to balance those multiple versions of him- or herself to balance the "mundane facts" of a story vs. the writer's overarching vision, which required a "total passion" for art. The American writer Henry David Thoreau also influenced Woolf. In a 1917 essay, she praised Thoreau for his statement "The millions are awake enough for physical labor, but only one in hundreds of millions is awake enough to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive." They both aimed to capture 'the moment'––as Walter Pater says, "to burn always with this hard, gem-like flame." Woolf praised Thoreau for his "simplicity" in finding "a way for setting free the delicate and complicated machinery of the soul". Like Thoreau, Woolf believed that it was silence that set the mind free to really contemplate and understand the world. Both authors believed in a certain transcendental, mystical approach to life and writing, where even banal things could be capable of generating deep emotions if one had enough silence and the presence of mind to appreciate them. Woolf and Thoreau were both concerned with the difficulty of human relationships in the modern age. Woolf's preface to Orlando credits Daniel Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Lawrence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Brontë, Thomas de Quincey, and Walter Pater as influences. Among her contemporaries, Woolf was influenced by Marcel Proust, writing to Roger Fry, "Oh if I could write like that!" List of selected publications see , , Novels see also The Voyage Out & Complete text see also Night and Day & Complete text see also Jacob's Room & Complete text see also Mrs Dalloway & Complete text see also To the Lighthouse & Complete text, also Texts at Woolf Online see also Orlando: A Biography & Complete text see also The Waves & Complete text see also Between the Acts & Complete text Short stories see also A Haunted House and Other Short Stories & Complete text see also The Mark on the Wall & Complete text see also Kew Gardens & Complete text Cross-genre see also Flush: A Biography & Complete text Drama see also Freshwater Biography see also Roger Fry: A Biography & Complete text Essays see also A