What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Politics per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Finals, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Mystery, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, One Day, Suicide, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Self, Tennis, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience. Feraz Zeid, October 27, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Patience, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Austerity, Crafts, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it’s about losing people you love. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Vanity, Wrinkles, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Knowing, Possibility, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings. - Max Beckmann Painter · Germany
