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Been Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
- It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation…
- One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
- Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention…
- After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine…
- Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary…
- I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that…
- I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,'…
- If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even…
- Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
- What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be…
- There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what…
- I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the…
- There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour