Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Imagination

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.29, Zondervan

• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Feet

  "To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1999.

• You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Silence, Meditation

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