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

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...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

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.

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.

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

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

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

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

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

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,...

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

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

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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 worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

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

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

Then who are we, the blind ones and the blind folded, that do not know...

Then who are we, the blind ones and the blind folded, that do not know...

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in...

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in...

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion...

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion...

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is...

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is...