“Marianne laughed. But you can’t disappoint me! I don’t love you.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Which is why we say I can't live without you meaning your life gives life to me, who am otherwise an empty… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It is very hard to prevail where you are not, in the deepest and most intimate and forgiving of ways, loved. It… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving intelligently—“shrewdly” and “reasonably”—she… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
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… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share
... 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 Copy Share
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