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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Most people who are writers go through periods when they can’t write (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Death is just the last scene of the last act (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
That’s how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
When you give up struggle, there’s a kind of love (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
None of the rest of my life figures here (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The best revenge is living well without you (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Every scar in my face is worth it (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
In love there are two things - bodies and words (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The quiet people just do their work (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
She wasn’t in love but she would love him, if that would save her (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing? (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost (Joyce Carol Oates Quotes)