How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. Joyce Carol Oates More Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates More Quotes From Joyce Carol Oates Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. Joyce Carol Oates condescending ignored praise The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it. Joyce Carol Oates money people thinking Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Joyce Carol Oates savior tradition enemy No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. Joyce Carol Oates storytelling stories Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible. Joyce Carol Oates communication tragedy civilization The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. Joyce Carol Oates idiot moral challenges ...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot. Joyce Carol Oates victory odds vegetables Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing. Joyce Carol Oates breathing doe fame Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light. Joyce Carol Oates impact light time There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty Joyce Carol Oates kind weight beauty Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. Joyce Carol Oates life-is-like boxing life-is You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness. Joyce Carol Oates perfect house blood Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. Joyce Carol Oates expression spirit art It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. Joyce Carol Oates hard writing People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. Joyce Carol Oates pages might people My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. Joyce Carol Oates virginia role-models roles Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. Joyce Carol Oates important matter book Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. Joyce Carol Oates selfish behavior evil The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. Joyce Carol Oates boxing rings men In love there are two things - bodies and words. Joyce Carol Oates body love two
