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Voice Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The regional voice is the universal voice.
- 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'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,'…
- When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just…
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's 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…
- This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
- Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice…
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- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive. — Afrika Bambaataa
- I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I… — Tyra Banks
- No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal… — Brigitte Bardot
- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr