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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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A female is essentially a cunt, the pure purpose of the female is cunt, but a woman, a wife, is a cunt with a mouth, a man has to reckon with. It's a sobering fact: you start off with a cunt, you wind up with mouth. You wind up with your widow-to-be. Joyce Carol Oates
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been. Joyce Carol Oates
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. Joyce Carol Oates
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. Joyce Carol Oates
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. Joyce Carol Oates
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know."
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know. Joyce Carol Oates
A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read,..."
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. Joyce Carol Oates
The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course interns are paid, in experience. Joyce Carol Oates
You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in..."
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. Joyce Carol Oates
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it."
I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. Joyce Carol Oates
That glass sliver in the heart. Amid a fluttery-delicious Benzedrine rush, virtually every remark made to you is freighted with destiny, a sweet-painful stab in the heart. And Benzedrine and champagne, what a combination! The Blond Actress was only just discovering what everybody else in Hollywood knew. Joyce Carol Oates

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