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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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A Fair Maiden’ existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - ‘ideas for stories.’ Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing. (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It’s deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn’t stop you feeling it. (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting. (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It’s so wonderful, going to bed. (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There’s something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it. (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this? (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
In love there are two things - bodies and words (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The quiet people just do their work (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
She wasn’t in love but she would love him, if that would save her (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing? (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)