What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Hate, Powerful, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The despairing soul is a rebel. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Rebel, Rebellion, Soul, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Desert, Light, Night, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Belief, Luck, Work, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ It feels good, honey, but it isn’t love. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Feel Good, Honey, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming – In thinking, not writing. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Dream, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Hungry, Loneliness, Realizing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst. Feraz Zeid, October 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Heart, Hopeful, Light, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed. - Jeff Jarrett Wrestler · USA
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. - Jeffery Deaver Author · USA
It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting. - Jennifer Niven Author
I’ve had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. - Jerry Lewis
Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA