What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ The quiet people just do their work. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 24, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Routine, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Bridges, Crosses, Eye, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. Feraz Zeid, June 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Ambitious, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Dirty, Noses, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can’t know it will be the last. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Broken Heart, Love You, Making Love, 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
+ Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Practice, Self, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
