What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ In love there are two things – bodies and words. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Body, Love, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ I never change, I simply become more myself. Feraz Zeid, November 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Never Change, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Politics per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Ironic, Moral, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Creative, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Embodiment, Stories, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Exciting, Long Ago, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Emotion, Imagination, Mind, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Memories, Remember You, Remembers You, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you’ll end wrong. - Maya Angelou Poet · USA
Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go! - Lynne Ewing
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality. - George Elliott Clarke Poet · Canada
