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Trying Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- 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…
- Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
- 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…
- I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching…
- I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in…
- People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives,…
- Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't…
- I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
- 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…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash