Best Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
- Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. Art
- It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own. Collision
- Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. Anticipate
- On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. Allure
- "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life. Been
- It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are. Funny
- Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented. Exist
- Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. Begin
- It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last. Broken
- She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion,… Absurd
- I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them. Always Believe
- Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. Accidents
- Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. Absorbing
- Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Critic
- Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. Content
- What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen. All
- Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. Across
- The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel… Answer
- The despairing soul is a rebel. Despairing
- You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity. Contemporaries
- I am always reading or thinking about reading. Always Reading
- The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. Affliction
- Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject. Ashamed
- If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly… Beneath
- The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward. Afterward
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