Best Joyce Carol Oates Quotations
- One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. Communicate
- It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation… Been
- The quiet people just do their work. People
- In love there are two things - bodies and words. Bodies
- Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident,… Accident
- Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. All
- Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. Glass
- Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. Artist
- Boxing has become America's tragic theater. America
- Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. Anyone
- If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking… Behind
- Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Authority
- Like most people, I can be very easily hurt. Easily
- The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when… Cleaning
- When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. Book
- Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more… Boxing
- Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. Come Together
- I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl. Girl
- The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. Belief
- You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. Encouragement
- As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom… Actually Know
- A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. Good
- A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. Any
- All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. All
- Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. All
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