Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates

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LiveWritingHelpRoutinePossible

There are guys you've never heard of who drive the ball better than anybody I've seen on the PGA Tour.

Jimmy Walker

DriveBetterYouNeverBallSeen

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

Jennifer Grey

PainSufferingWhoChronicMillions

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

Amy Sedaris

TimeShoesNewSometimesMailCheck

The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.

Stephenie Meyer

GoodThinkDawnPressureDoingWill

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'

Sophie Kinsella

LifePeopleWritingBookMy Life

Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far - as much as a showman as he may be.

Steven Van Zandt

HomePeopleMeBelieveDonald Trump

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

Steve Southerland

WorkBelieveGiftYouGreatest Gift

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Rob Bell

FaithParentsYouHonestEngaged

It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

Rumaan Alam

ChildrenQualityImaginationColor

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

StoryEnoughEarlyKnowHollywood

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

Demi Lovato

TrustLearnYouKnowSometimesOver

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

Davy Jones

LifeHomeThinkMy LifeAmerica

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