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

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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.

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

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

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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 worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

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...

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

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

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.

That moment when you finally take a decent picture and then as you continue to...

That moment when you finally take a decent picture and then as you continue to...

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...