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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes about life

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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Joyce Carol Oates quote: "When people say there is too much violence in my books, what..."
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. Joyce Carol Oates
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing-for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible to see your opponent is you … Joyce Carol Oates
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it..."
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. Joyce Carol Oates
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. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial..."
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. Joyce Carol Oates
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man..."
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a..."
Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "None of the rest of my life figures here."
None of the rest of my life figures here. Joyce Carol Oates
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone. Joyce Carol Oates

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