I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It was Corinne’s secret belief that her daughter was a far finer person than she was herself, a riddle put to her… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — 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 Image
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 Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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 Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — 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
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 Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'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 Image
