Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

“I have always wanted to be a farmer so that I could be out standing in my field”

— Anonymous

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel -…

— Joan Didion

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and…

— Iris Murdoch

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

— Prue Leith

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook,…

— Linwood Barclay

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin…

— Anton Chekhov

“Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when…

— Wallace Stegner

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

— Jo Brand

“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking, “Is this…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

Love is like standing on wet cement: The longer you stay in it, The harder it is to leave and You can never let…

— Kemis Khan

“When the masses are against you, when fear is on every side, and when it seems like you are standing alone, that is when…

— Ammar Habib

A relationship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stand, the more difficult is to leave.

— Nate

“Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move.”

— Mo

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

— Kevin Spacey