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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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Joyce Carol Oates quote: "The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the..."
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works..."
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that."
I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive."
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Death is just the last scene of the last act."
Death is just the last scene of the last act. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is..."
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the..."
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Joyce Carol Oates
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms. Joyce Carol Oates
But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play? Joyce Carol Oates
Maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just just the next just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next maybe all there is is is just is just the next thing Roslyn's words stuck in her head & she could not stop repeating them Maybe all there is is just the next thing like a Hindu mantra & she was a yogin murmuring her secret prayer Maybe all there is just the next thing. She thought, That's a comfort! Joyce Carol Oates
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.' Joyce Carol Oates
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously? Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's..."
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. Joyce Carol Oates
You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are! Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? Joyce Carol Oates

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