C.F. Joyce Quotes

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

If you will do what you CAN do, God will do what you CANNOT do.

Everybody wants to be loved. God already loves you; all you have to do is believe and accept it.

We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

Pray about everything and worry about nothing. You will enjoy life much more.

So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.

One day, the idea that God loved me dropped from my head into my heart.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.

Attitude is your thought life turned inside out

You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Words are containers for power