Best Joyce Carol Oates Wisdom
- Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that… Accomplished
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we… Achieve
- Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own… Critical
- 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only… Accursed
- The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review… Book
- The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our… Accidental
- The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young… Charismatic
- The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. Any
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which… Art
- To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must… Character
- To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them.… Canvases
- We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we… All
- 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American… American
- When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel… Another Long
- When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought… Adult
- When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain… Back Upon
- When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke,… Brother
- When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just… Communicate
- Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't… Advice
- Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an… Best
- Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on… Age
- Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in… Audiobooks
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. Book
- The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… Activity
- Every scar in my face is worth it. Every Scar
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