Cant Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cant Finals Firsts Sentences Writers and writing Writers reading Writing Writing by writers Written
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson 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
“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
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
I would go to different production houses everyday for auditions and they would reject me saying you cant talk, smile, dance, or act. — Nikki Tamboli Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
