What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Affliction, Cures, Novel, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Lost, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Evil isn’t a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Behavior, Evil, Selfish, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Compromise, Minors, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Writing is a consequence of having been ‘haunted’ by material. Why this is, no one knows. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Materials, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Extinction, War, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? - Jean Racine Playwright · France
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
