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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it’s gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can’t see a thing (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There’s a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can’t alter (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I had forgotten that time wasn’t fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won’t receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I’m drawn to failure. I feel that I’m contending with it constantly in my own life (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don’t have ordinarily (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She’d become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Her problem wasn’t she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn’t a blonde and she wasn’t dumb (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
... there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)