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Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.

Joyce Carol Oates
Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Artist
"Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself". Interview with Joyce Carol Oates, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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.

Joyce Carol Oates
Art, Giving Up, Writing
Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Joyce Carol Oates
Giving Up, Struggle, Kind
Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.90, Zondervan

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

Joyce Carol Oates
Giving Up, Would Be, Given
Source: www.achievement.org

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