Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Whoever was stupid was beneath worry or thought; you did not have to figure them out. This eliminated hundreds of people. In… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — 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
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let… — 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
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event,… — 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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