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Write Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming…
- 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…
- Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
- You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
- As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom…
- It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
- Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.
- '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…
- I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning…
- 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 haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take…
- I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of…
- 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…
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we…
- To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them.…
- 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…
- 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…
- I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as…
- The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
- When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals…
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