Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'

Joyce Carol Oates

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LoveHappyPeopleBe HappyStory

People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.

Jesse Kellerman

TimePeopleWritingBookBelieve

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

Joe Thomas

LifeInterestingYouTrueRingWay

Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.

Ann Nocenti

LoveGreatHeroI AmActionTools

Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.

Rob McClure

LifeLearningSpeakDetailsForget

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

Robin McLeavy

MomEnvironmentalLateAustraliaHer

I don't see it as a bad thing that I surround myself with edgy people. Because they're interesting.

Milo Yiannopoulos

MyselfPeopleInterestingBadEdgy

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

MomentChoicesPossibilitiesYouOur

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.

Chris Martin

LookingThinkProblemYouSomething

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

AloneManSocietyUniverseGroup

For me, the association with rock is one of force and anger and aggression. And definitely, in the past, I've made songs that attack like that. But what I usually try to appeal to is peoples' everyday feelings, the things that they're going through as they deal with the system on a one-to-one level.

Boots Riley

PastAngerMeFeelingsRockTry

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

William Greider

WillHardEconomyPolicyBottom

It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

Mark Kurlansky

FishKnowDoneHuntingYearsOff

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