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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one..."
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its..."
I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result. Joyce Carol Oates
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather. Joyce Carol Oates
Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of..."
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because..."
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing? Joyce Carol Oates
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. Joyce Carol Oates
Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing. Joyce Carol Oates
These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the..."
Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. Joyce Carol Oates
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that?"
Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that? Joyce Carol Oates
The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the..."
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. Joyce Carol Oates

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