Joyce Carol Oates
Related She looked at me, and even though she couldn't talk I could see in her eyes that she was trying to a... BECKY HOLLAND JUDITH VIORST AGATHA CHRISTIE BETTY SMITH STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely ... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT Carol just has those instincts that let you find a character. The first time I worked with her was i... DONNIE WILSON GILLIAN FLYNN More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s w... MEREDITH BAXTER She believed that Maggie was God's baby and was persistent that she needed to find a way to give her... DR. XIAOYAN WU BETTY SMITH A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD I think it's just the year of experience under her belt. Last year, she was trying it out to see if ... KATRINA VAN TASSEL My first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering macho way- she coul... LAWRENCE SCHIMEL It was definitely a lot of her playfulness, wit and fire that I tried to put into the piece. She was... CHAD LANGFORD STEPHEN CHBOSKY You knew she was ill. But even through last week, she was upbeat. She was a great coach, but more im... SKIP BERTMAN (The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I... LISANNE SKYLER PATRICIA HIGHSMITH WALTER CRONKITE She tried to make it, but it was too late. KYLAN ROBINSON JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD She's a very, very timid person, and since she was scared, I was just like, I just wanted her to fee... DAX MAIER ALLEGRA GOODMAN JOHN GREEN DANIELLE STEEL The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.JAMES ROBERTSON When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT MITCH HEDBERG RUTH REICHL CHARISMA CARPENTER When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,... CICELY TYSON NICHOLAS SPARKS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS She wanted to do something to help people. She was just so close to go out on patrol. She was just s... ROSALIE YANEZ I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to... LAURA JOPLIN ANNA GODBERSEN She was tempted to take the elevator instead of the stairs just this once. But that was how it start... MELISSA F. MILLER MARKUS ZUSAK From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was ... PETE BURNS ALAN BENNETT DOROTHY L. SAYERS NEIL GAIMAN AKSHAY VASU IAN MCEWAN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER HOLLY BLACK C. JOYBELL C. A few years later I learned that she had a kid. I did the math and came to the obvious conclusion th... DYLAN CALLENS She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE The reason I tried to hide it was (because) I was supposed to be home kissing my girlfriend. She sai... ERNEST DUBAY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE MITCH HEDBERG CAMERON DIAZ BRYAN WHITE She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g... JIM HOUDEK The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE She was a trooper, she went back in there, but obviously she was in a great deal of pain at that poi... BETH DUNKENBERGER JOHN GREEN It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hem... PAULA MCLAIN She was a businesswoman, and she was doing something that was not in sync with the times. She felt s... RICHARD MILLER CHUCK PALAHNIUK BILLIE JEAN KING AMBER BENSON My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master&#... BIG SEAN KRISTA RITCHIE She's a farm girl, but doesn't fit in. She doesn't want to work on the farm; she'd rather write poet... ALICE BESTERMAN KURT VONNEGUT She just wanted to have a good senior season, so the trouble within the team was frustrating to her.... JACE HYMAS SETH GRAHAME-SMITH As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ... JACK HANDY She and I had talked about the shows that she would be great in once that year was up. I was certain... BONNIE MONTE THOMM QUACKENBUSH She was supposed to be the backup setter and that was it. We plugged her in at middle blocker, and s... ROY BROWN ILONA ANDREWS She was really close to all the kids. She was in the gym on Monday. She was a great kid and such a h... DANA BRUTON STIEG LARSSON I don't know what she was thinking. She is just a young girl, and she must have panicked. I heard he... ANTHONY FARRISI GEORGE TAKEI DAVID MITCHELL She just said she was sorry and for me to write a note to the church saying that she was sorry for e... PAM KILLINGSWORTH She hit the ball well. She pulled a couple balls and I was excited to see that. Usually she hits it ... SCOTT BISBE ANNETTE BENING My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s... MARY LAWSON DONATELLA VERSACE I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ... DARREN SHAN My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w... LESLIE MORGAN STEINER The most ironic thing was that, the thing she valued the most was freedom. For according to her, hap... PRADNYA CHABBI TERI POLO She took care of herself. She just decided that was enough. She's too independent and wanted to do w... EUGENIA BLIZZARD We sent a letter and she said that she was flattered but her schedule didn't allow. JANINE DIGIOACCHINO Mike had a wife and her name was Terri. She came before me, and I knew that. That was just that. Not... JODI SCHIAVO We like to have her in the game, especially in the end because she brings a calmness to the team. Sh... DARRIS OLSON NATALIE MERCHANT CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... 
She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. ‘I didn’t... 
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... 
I read on the back cover that the author was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. ... 
I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... 
Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled beca... 
I remember her when she was an NBC reporter -- correspondent in Japan -- and I thought she did great... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s... 
Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie dow... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... 
My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfwa... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really... 
But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... 
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was sti... 
She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life.
And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly... 
Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c... 
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... 
She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her... 
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply lik... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew... 
Maggie slept with him because she wanted to hurt Rose, to get back at her, ... Also Rose had just ki... 
One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was s... 
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu... 
Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name an... 
She wanted to be true to herself... and she had a lot of demons because of it. I think her sexuality... 
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s... 
She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... 
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in ... 
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ... 
Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back ... 
But she was funny sometimes, and never boring. God, it would almost be worth it to see her face when... 
Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... 
I've known Lisa Lampanelli for quite some time. We did the Shatner roast together. Lisa didn'... 
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou... 
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I wa... 
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... 
In some instances, I don't care what people think. In other instances, I do - especially because... 
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... 
She was desperate and she was choosey 
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ... 
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ... 
In love there are two things -- bodies and words. 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. 
In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doe... 
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... 
Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can... 
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if... 
There is such a thing as bad publicity. 