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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: "Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned..."
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Joyce Carol Oates
How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story. Joyce Carol Oates
To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numberous others, will say it for you. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents."
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. Joyce Carol Oates
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot. Joyce Carol Oates
What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I consider tragedy the highest form of art."
I consider tragedy the highest form of art. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows..."
Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art."
Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. Joyce Carol Oates
Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its..."
To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry..."
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Joyce Carol Oates
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. Joyce Carol Oates
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you..."
And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it. Joyce Carol Oates

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