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From Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- 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,…
- Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
- 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…
- Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
- I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching…
- I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as…
- If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther…
- There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what…
- Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching…
- From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny.…
- How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses…
- Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who…
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