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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating (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)
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
How lawyers make work for one another! You’re all priests, worshipping the same God. No wonder you adore one another (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one’s elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one’s generation, as new, novel, ungovernable (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That’s why we have art (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don’t want them. What I want is a voice (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you’ve done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you’re no longer their child (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it’s immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)