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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
In a family, what isn’t spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
You don’t have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Memory blurs, that’s the point. If memory didn’t blur you wouldn’t have the fool’s courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I’m sure all that you’ve heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
One man’s insanity is another man’s genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won’t last; nothing can guarantee it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don’t want to get up. She’s so much more calming than my husband (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The body can’t distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I don’t think that writer’s block exists really. I think that when you’re trying to do something prematurely, it just won’t come. Certain subjects just need time, as I’ve learned over and over again. You’ve got to wait before you write about them (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else’s private world with our own (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can’t know it will be the last (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The innocence of such children doesn’t answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I don’t think I’m morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn’t appeal to me, and I don’t read it. I think I’m a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I haven’t the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven’t the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I’ve written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don’t know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don’t care about (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don’t vote. They often don’t elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they’re not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)