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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Life Personality People World Artist

The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.

Journey Hero Cultures Polo Globe

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

Fun Friends Talking Your About

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Business Negative Others Check Four

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Home Travel I Am Happy Forward Year

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Michael Moriarty

Great Artist More Republican Deal

Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.

Success Creative Process Creating

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

Blessed Looking Back Career Find

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Douglas Coupland

Technology You Holiday Break Take

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

Donald T. Regan

Down Cleaning Street Follow Parade

There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary or whatever, and then there are some people who are maybe not entirely stable who think that they're real, who think that they're being stalked by the same demons or ghosts that are mentioned in the books.

People Think Demons Some People Real

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.

Great People Reality Better Doing

My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.

Hair Curly Iron Different Even How

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