--- title: "17 Feels Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates" description: "17 Feels quotes by Joyce Carol Oates. Plus more from Joyce Carol Oates and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/joyce-carol-oates-344_feel-good_it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love-29_2987116.png" --- > [It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/joyce-carol-oates-344_feel-good_it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love-29_2987116.png) > [I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-feel-a-terrible-loss-when-i-eventually-must-complete-a-work-of/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/joyce-carol-oates-344_death_i-feel-a-terrible-loss-when-i-eventually_1511071.png) > [And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/and-i-m-drawn-to-failure-i-often-write-about-it-and-i-m-sympathetic/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/joyce-carol-oates-344_contending_and-i-m-drawn-to-failure-i-often-write-a_1148420.png) > [I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-m-drawn-to-failure-i-feel-that-i-m-contending-with-it-constantly-in/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47e/joyce-carol-oates-344_contending_i-m-drawn-to-failure-i-feel-that-i-m-con_1424259.png) > [I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-ve-never-given-up-i-ve-always-kept-going-i-don-t-feel-that-i-could/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/joyce-carol-oates-344_beginning_i-ve-never-given-up-i-ve-always-kept-goi_2068597.png) > [A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/a-lot-of-widows-feel-that-they-have-betrayed-their-spouse-by/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/joyce-carol-oates-344_betrayed_a-lot-of-widows-feel-that-they-have-betr_2050877.png) > [In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/in-a-sense-i-may-not-consciously-know-what-i-m-doing-i-feel-that-i-m/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ce/joyce-carol-oates-344_feels_in-a-sense-i-may-not-consciously-know-wh_1676289.png) > [I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-turn-down-invitations-to-do-things-for-money-i-have-almost-no/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/joyce-carol-oates-344_amount_i-turn-down-invitations-to-do-things-for_1756712.jpg) > [I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-don-t-feel-i-write-fast-i-write-in-longhand-and-do-so-much-revision/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6a/joyce-carol-oates-344_fast_i-don-t-feel-i-write-fast-i-write-in-lon_1691945.png) > [I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-would-suggest-the-widow-do-things-the-husband-used-to-do-so-he/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/joyce-carol-oates-344_bed_i-would-suggest-the-widow-do-things-the_1143051.png) > [Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/any-kind-of-creative-activity-is-likely-to-be-stressful-the-more/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82d/joyce-carol-oates-344_accompany_any-kind-of-creative-activity-is-likely_2728038.png) > [ I feel akin to \[William\] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-feel-akin-to-william-shakespeare-in-the-sense-that-as-i-see-it-he/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/joyce-carol-oates-344_exciting_i-feel-akin-to-william-shakespeare-in-th_2191592.jpg) > [Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/among-many-of-my-friends-and-acquaintances-i-seem-to-be-one-of-the/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/joyce-carol-oates-344_abiding_among-many-of-my-friends-and-acquaintanc_1247994.jpg) > [I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-don-t-know-what-marriages-are-like-in-general-but-there-are-many/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77b/joyce-carol-oates-344_contrast_i-don-t-know-what-marriages-are-like-in_3107504.png) > [When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/when-i-wrote-we-were-the-mulvaneys-i-was-just-old-enough-to-look-back/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc0/joyce-carol-oates-344_certain_when-i-wrote-we-were-the-mulvaneys-i-was_272512.png) > [For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/for-the-first-time-driving-that-day-i-could-feel-the-motion-of-the/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/112/joyce-carol-oates-344_axes_for-the-first-time-driving-that-day-i-co_2094619.png) > [When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/when-writing-goes-painfully-when-it-s-hideously-difficult-and-one/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/joyce-carol-oates-344_despair_when-writing-goes-painfully-when-it-s-hi_2051632.png) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Joyce Carol Oates > [“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/a-woman-who-has-lost-her-husband-is-invalid-thus-an-invalid-in/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/running-if-there-s-any-activity-happier-more-exhilarating-more/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/you-need-so-much-energy-and-encouragement-to-write-that-if-someone/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-learned-long-ago-that-being-lewis-carroll-was-infinitely-more/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/paradox-how-do-we-know-what-we-have-failed-to-see-because-we-have-no/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/at-all-crucial-moments-in-our-lives-we-want-to-speak-without-knowing/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/a-writer-s-life-is-in-his-work-and-that-is-the-place-to-find-him/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-challenge-is-to-resist-circumstances-any-idiot-can-be-happy-in-a/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-first-sentence-cant-be-written-until-the-final-sentence-is-written/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/did-you-know-marianne-how-by-breaking-the-code-that-day-you-broke-it/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > ['The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-accursed-is-very-much-a-novel-about-social-injustice-as-the/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/keep-a-light-hopeful-heart-but-expect-the-worst/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/and-this-is-the-forbidden-truth-the-unspeakable-taboo-that-evil-is/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-don-t-think-that-writer-s-block-exists-really-i-think-that-when-you/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) > [... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/such-speculation-is-like-staring-into-the-hot-white-sun-you-know-the/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/joyce-carol-oates/#itemlist", "name": "17 Feels Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/joyce-carol-oates-344_feel-good_it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love-29_2987116.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/joyce-carol-oates-344_feel-good_it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love-29_2987116.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/joyce-carol-oates-344_feel-good_it-feels-good-honey-but-it-isn-t-love-29_2987116.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.” — Joyce Carol Oates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-feel-a-terrible-loss-when-i-eventually-must-complete-a-work-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/joyce-carol-oates-344_death_i-feel-a-terrible-loss-when-i-eventually_1511071.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/joyce-carol-oates-344_death_i-feel-a-terrible-loss-when-i-eventually_1511071.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/joyce-carol-oates-344_death_i-feel-a-terrible-loss-when-i-eventually_1511071.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.” — Joyce Carol Oates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And I’m drawn to failure. 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