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Time Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
- I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come…
- I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just…
- It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
- She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion,…
- Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the…
- I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
- As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really…
- A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
- No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
- After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine…
- '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…
- After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate…
- As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to…
- Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we…
- 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.…
- Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that…
- 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…
- 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…
- The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but…
- I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can…
- 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…
- For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on…
- Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
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