Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Memorable, Unrequited Love

  Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton

• Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Artist

  "Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself". Interview with Joyce Carol Oates, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

• I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Giving Up, Writing

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Giving Up, Struggle, Kind

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.90, Zondervan

• Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Blessing, Giving

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.25, Zondervan

• I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Awards

• To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Giving

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

• People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

• I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Giving Up, Would Be, Given

  Source: www.achievement.org

• When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Lying, Giving

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