I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful … - Joyce Carol Oates

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Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Joyce Carol Oates

I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.

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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

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