"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!"
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site.
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
— Jim Bishop
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Be a doer and not a critic.
— Tony Blair
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I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of…
— Mary J. Blige
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Now everyone is a critic.
— Christina Aguilera
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
— Michael Caine
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
— Tony Campolo
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of…
— Raymond Chandler
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