If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Topics: Housework Quotes

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason