I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to… — 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
Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“FOXFIRE NEVER SAYS NEVER! By the time the kidnapped turquoise-and-chrome car overturns--turns and turns and turns!--in a snow-drifted field north of Tydeman's… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“When you discover yourself lying on the ground, limp and unresisting, head in the dirt, and helpless, the earth seems to shift… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband.… — 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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