“No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.” — 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
“Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It is no more malicious, and surely no more unnatural than the act of introducing the male black widow spider to the… — 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
