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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of intellectual/literary precocity, I had not experienced much; nor would I experience much until I was well into middle age-the illnesses and deaths of my parents, this unexpected death of my husband. We play at paste till qualified for pearl says... Joyce Carol Oates
There could be no romance in the terrible possibility that Gretel Nissenbaum had fled on foot, alone, not to her family but simply to escape from her life; in what exigency of need, what despondency of spirit, no name might be given it by any who have not experienced it. Joyce Carol Oates
And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs. Joyce Carol Oates
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest..."
Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live."
Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live. Joyce Carol Oates
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the..."
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. Joyce Carol Oates
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

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