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Own Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
- Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
- For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who…
- If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including…
- My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings.…
- My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I…
- 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 wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
- Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in…
- 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 failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
- The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov