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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Together Ideas Enough You Write

You have to just figure out how to let it roll off of you, because no matter who you are or what you do, somebody's always going to disagree with something that you're doing or saying or something that you think or believe.

Saying Believe Think Doing You Out

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Music Great Energy You Back Way

Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.

Start Legal You Citizen Way Become

Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.

Me Person Never Grudges Hold Being

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

Work Friend Best Together Job Help

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

Life Goals Political Die True Up

I think '12 Years a Slave' really helped me, as a person and as a student, to grow.

Me Think Grow Student Person Slave

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

Me Feet Dream Brick Wall Candy

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Good Heart Myself Soul Mind Reading

I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'

Good I Am People Election Said Way

No one reads anything. They just look at images.

Jonathan Anderson

Look Anything Images Just Reads

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sail People Thought American Enough

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