"Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader -……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else."

312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down… — Kathryn Bigelow
When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate.… — Lewis Black
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are… — F. H. Bradley
Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other… — Buzz Aldrin
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a… — Oleg Cassini
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles… — Sun Tzu
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money… — Maimonides
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which… — Agnes Repplier
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,… — Colin Powell
I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit… — Sean Penn

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