Best Joyce Carol Oates Sayings
- The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles… Art
- Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me. Consciousness
- I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. Age
- Great art is cathartic; it is always moral. Always Moral
- Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art… Art
- Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the… Compulsion
- Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing. Allow
- To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion. Deepest
- Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. Aloneness
- Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. Aloud
- Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. Better
- Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt. Boxing
- Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. Art
- The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… Atoms
- I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written. Funny
- I really love to set things in places that are real to me. Funny
- It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with… Ask
- Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Beyond
- As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really… Exercise
- Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. Advantage
- I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate… Adventure
- How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called… Beyond
- She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling… All
- Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity. Activity
- My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. Character
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