Austen Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Bronte Childless Eliot George Eliot Jane Models Role models Roles Virginia Virginia Woolf Woolf
Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
I always think about the role models I had when I was a little girl. They really made me feel how big I could… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
After I had my baby, I reprioritized my life in general. I really wanted to play characters that gave me a different kind of… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Growing up, it was difficult to find role models I could relate too. Mass media told me to emulate sexy singers or sexy actresses.… — Lynsey Dyer Copy Share Image
As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I had no role models from my own community - there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio,… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid I adored Katharine Hepburn, especially when she played Jo, the ballsy sister in Little Women. All the kids in… — Ray Hagen Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay.… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image