A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control… — 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
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. — 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
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone. — 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
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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 all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste… — 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
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. — 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
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