What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: God’s blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath. Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Author, November 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Accountability, Balance, Self-improvement, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. Author, July 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Appreciation, Feedback, Surprise, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ I never change, I simply become more myself. Author, November 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Authenticity, Growth, Identity, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Communication, Life, Uncertainty, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. Author, June 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Healing, Resilience, Survival, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Inspiration, Reading, Writing, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Creativity, Curiosity, Exploration, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. Author, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Absorption, Ambition, Emotion, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel Novelist · Austria
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. Michelangelo Artist · Italy
