I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.


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Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indul...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedles...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psycho...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolution...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, an...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you ca...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You wi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work prod...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...
ADAM
Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ...
ADAM
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear...
ADAM DURITZ
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur...
ADAM DAVIDSON
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o...
ADAM DRIVER
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ...
ADAM WEST
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
ADAM PEATY
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
ADAM WEST
You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&...
ADAM GREEN
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i...
ADAM GRANT
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't...
ADAM LEVINE