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Me Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
- Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
- I really love to set things in places that are real to me.
- I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate…
- She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling…
- Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
- 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes…
- Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather…
- 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 don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a…
- I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read…
- I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first…
- Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own…
- 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American…
- When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought…
- When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
- When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke,…
- The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual…
- Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching…
- If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a…
- It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but…
- I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent…
- Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
- Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
- My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale