We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

- Joyce Johnson

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

- Joyce Johnson

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

- Joyce Johnson

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only …

- Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

- Joyce Johnson

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitu…

- Joyce Johnson

Nothing ever happened except God.

- Joyce Johnson

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to…

- Joyce Johnson

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

- Joyce Johnson