Young Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

15 Young quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates tackles youth with her signature depth, probing both its bright promise and its darker shadows. Across 15 quotes she offers a nuanced portrait of growing up, inviting readers to consider the many layers of youthful experience.

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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…

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“To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or…

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Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up…

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I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became…

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As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to…

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I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women,…

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My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives…

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I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my…

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'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the…

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I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be…

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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…

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“I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound,…

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My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school…

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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…

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“Erotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.”

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“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?”

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