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You Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
- If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking…
- 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.
- I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to…
- No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
- To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition…
- A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop…
- Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.…
- I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who…
- I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just…
- If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with…
- 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…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide