Body Quote by Joyce Johnson

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

— Joyce Johnson

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

— Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

— Joyce Johnson

I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an…

— Joyce Johnson

Nothing ever happened except God.

— Joyce Johnson

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

— Joyce Johnson

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

— Joyce Johnson

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

— Joyce Johnson

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to…

— Joyce Johnson

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn…

— Joyce Johnson

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

— Joyce Johnson