And Iām drawn to failure. I often write about it, and Iām sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel Iām contending with it constantly in my own life.
Joyce Carol OatesYou are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
Joyce Carol OatesThe punishment ā to the body, the brain, the spirit ā a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to most of us whose idea of personal risk is largely ego-related or emotional.
Joyce Carol Oates