--- title: "24 Way Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates" description: "24 Way quotes by Joyce Carol Oates. Plus more from Joyce Carol Oates and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/joyce-carol-oates-344_affected_my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-wit_1679833.png" --- > [My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-witness-for-others-who-lack-the/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/joyce-carol-oates-344_affected_my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-wit_1679833.png) > [I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-was-writing-novels-in-high-school-and-apprenticed-myself-in-a-way/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/joyce-carol-oates-344_books_i-was-writing-novels-in-high-school-and_131550.png) > [If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/if-you-re-living-with-a-scientist-you-see-the-world-differently-than/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/joyce-carol-oates-344_differences_if-you-re-living-with-a-scientist-you-se_918378.jpg) > [When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/when-my-brother-called-to-inform-me-on-the-morning-of-may-22-2003/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc4/joyce-carol-oates-344_brother_when-my-brother-called-to-inform-me-on-t_465530.jpg) > [Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/why-the-need-rising-in-some-very-nearly-to-the-level-of-compulsion-to/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/joyce-carol-oates-344_compulsion_why-the-need-rising-in-some-very-nearly_330907.png) > [The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-relationship-between-parents-and-children-but-especially-between/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/joyce-carol-oates-344_children_the-relationship-between-parents-and-chi_486641.png) > [Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/criticism-is-for-me-like-essay-writing-a-wonderful-way-of-relaxation/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3f/joyce-carol-oates-344_calm_criticism-is-for-me-like-essay-writing-a_2776557.png) > [Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/look-at-the-world-and-see-what-s-there-it-s-very-beautiful-it-s-a/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b6/joyce-carol-oates-344_beautiful_look-at-the-world-and-see-what-s-there-i_3011283.png) > [I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-work-very-slowly-it-s-like-building-a-ladder-where-you-re-building/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/joyce-carol-oates-344_best-way_i-work-very-slowly-it-s-like-building-a_833898.png) > [I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-turn-down-invitations-to-do-things-for-money-i-have-almost-no/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/joyce-carol-oates-344_amount_i-turn-down-invitations-to-do-things-for_1756712.jpg) > [My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/my-theory-is-that-literature-is-essential-to-society-in-the-way-that/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/339/joyce-carol-oates-344_back_my-theory-is-that-literature-is-essentia_619741.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/128/joyce-carol-oates-344_american-life_i-m-drawn-to-write-about-upstate-new-yor_2824729.jpg) > ['We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/we-were-the-mulvaneys-is-perhaps-the-novel-closest-to-my-heart-i/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d0/joyce-carol-oates-344_american-life_we-were-the-mulvaneys-is-perhaps-the-nov_2362681.png) > [The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-novel-is-perhaps-the-highest-art-form-because-it-so-closely/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/joyce-carol-oates-344_art_the-novel-is-perhaps-the-highest-art-for_2119981.png) > [How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/how-fascinating-to-a-child-are-words-the-shapes-sounds-textures-and/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acb/joyce-carol-oates-344_children_how-fascinating-to-a-child-are-words-the_3117533.png) > [When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/when-i-was-very-little-four-or-five-i-did-comic-strip-drawings-so-my/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b3/joyce-carol-oates-344_adults_when-i-was-very-little-four-or-five-i-di_1914995.png) > [One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/one-of-the-qualities-of-writing-that-is-not-much-stressed-is-its/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a21/joyce-carol-oates-344_art_one-of-the-qualities-of-writing-that-is_721511.jpg) > [The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/the-other-book-that-i-worry-no-one-reads-anymore-is-james-joyce-s/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/joyce-carol-oates-344_able_the-other-book-that-i-worry-no-one-reads_662524.png) > [Henry David Thoreau is very independent-minded, very iconoclastic, and had quite a corrosive sense of humor. I think that I probably have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/henry-david-thoreau-is-very-independent-minded-very-iconoclastic-and/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/joyce-carol-oates-344_approved_henry-david-thoreau-is-very-independent_2512761.png) > [And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/and-so-you-must-grant-to-god-what-is-god-and-not-try-to-think-of-what/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/joyce-carol-oates-344_grants_and-so-you-must-grant-to-god-what-is-god_1639180.png) > [By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/by-the-way-of-connecting-with-subject-with-theme-i-was-able-to-find-a/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/joyce-carol-oates-344_able_by-the-way-of-connecting-with-subject-wi_990140.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/905/joyce-carol-oates-344_brutal_i-see-the-world-in-ways-that-might-be-co_1968105.jpg) > [My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/my-own-way-of-writing-is-very-meditated-and-despite-my-reputation/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/joyce-carol-oates-344_contemplating_my-own-way-of-writing-is-very-meditated_1360116.png) > [Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/though-i-am-never-exactly-blocked-i-do-have-difficult-periods-i-am/) [Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/joyce-carol-oates-344_adversity_though-i-am-never-exactly-blocked-i-do-h_811650.png) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/joyce-carol-oates/#itemlist", "name": "24 Way Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-witness-for-others-who-lack-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/joyce-carol-oates-344_affected_my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-wit_1679833.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/joyce-carol-oates-344_affected_my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-wit_1679833.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/joyce-carol-oates-344_affected_my-writing-is-often-a-way-of-bearing-wit_1679833.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell…” — Joyce Carol Oates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Carol Oates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-was-writing-novels-in-high-school-and-apprenticed-myself-in-a-way/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/joyce-carol-oates-344_books_i-was-writing-novels-in-high-school-and_131550.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/joyce-carol-oates-344_books_i-was-writing-novels-in-high-school-and_131550.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/joyce-carol-oates-344_books_i-was-writing-novels-in-high-school-and_131550.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.” — Joyce Carol Oates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. 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