I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes. — Joyce Johnson Believe Copy Share Image
Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to… — Joyce Johnson Driven Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson Body Copy Share Image
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. — Joyce Johnson Keep going Copy Share Image
I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to… — Joyce Johnson Art Copy Share Image
Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works. — Joyce Johnson Art Copy Share Image
We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others. — Joyce Johnson Reality Copy Share Image
Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy… — Joyce Johnson Anonymity Copy Share Image
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys… — Joyce Johnson Art Copy Share Image
media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and… — Joyce Johnson Art Copy Share Image
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they… — Joyce Johnson Age Copy Share Image
I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this… — Joyce Johnson Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved. — Joyce Johnson Love Copy Share Image
Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from… — Joyce Johnson Clear Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be. — Joyce Johnson Prose Copy Share Image
“…I told Jack I had nothing to say about his vision of God. I couldn’t believe in God myself. In his next… — Joyce Johnson Believe in god Copy Share Image
What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a… — Joyce Johnson Boys Copy Share Image
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is… — Joyce Johnson Chill Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that… — Joyce Johnson Age Copy Share Image
If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude. — Joyce Johnson Creative Copy Share Image
