Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in…

— George Saunders

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in…

— George Saunders

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that…

— Jonathan Raban

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner…

— Agnes Varda

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

— Felicity Jones

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next…

— Adam Clymer

Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.

— Shiva Ayyadurai