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title: "25 Might Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates"
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> [My writing is full of lives I might have led.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/my-writing-is-full-of-lives-i-might-have-led/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [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/)

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> [See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/see-people-come-into-your-life-for-a-reason-they-might-not-know-it/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-come-from-people-who-did-not-go-to-college-they-didn-t-even-finish/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/people-might-be-surprised-to-know-how-much-i-throw-away-for-every/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/even-as-a-young-child-i-was-a-lover-of-books-and-of-the-spaces-in/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/prose-it-might-be-speculated-is-discourse-poetry-ellipsis-prose-is/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/don-t-try-to-anticipate-an-ideal-reader-or-any-reader-he-she-might/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/writing-allows-for-fictitious-voices-the-voices-of-persons-unlike/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/running-if-there-s-any-activity-happier-more-exhilarating-more-2/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/it-s-very-hard-to-be-an-experimental-woman-writer-if-i-had-been/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/what-does-it-mean-to-be-born-after-we-die-will-it-be-the-same-thing/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/productivity-is-a-relative-matter-and-it-s-really-insignificant-what/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/if-a-book-i-ve-committed-myself-to-review-turns-out-to-be/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-m-drawn-to-write-about-upstate-new-york-in-the-way-in-which-a/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/to-claim-to-claim-repeatedly-that-you-are-innocent-of-what-it-is/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/this-is-my-life-now-absurd-but-unpredictable-not-absurd-because/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/adriana-loved-even-the-rank-animal-smell-of-the-man-s-body-her-sweat/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-act-of-sending-a-letter-is-an-act-of-generosity-even-if-in/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/honorary-degrees-and-lifetime-achievement-awards-are-very-encouraging/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/yes-black-girl-white-girl-might-be-described-as-a-coming-of-age-novel/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-historical-woodrow-wilson-suffered-from-numerous-complaints-which/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/prose-it-might-be-speculated-is-discourse-poetry-ellipsis-prose-is-2/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/except-that-awards-are-competitive-which-is-a-negative-thing-they-are/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-see-the-world-in-ways-that-might-be-considered-somewhat-harsh-and/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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## Other authors on Might

## 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/)

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