Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oatesis an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them, two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels Black Water, What I Lived For, Blonde, and short story collections The Wheel of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 June 1938
CityLockport, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Joyce Carol Oates quotes about
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.
celebrate while you can
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.
When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
None of the rest of my life figures here.
... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.
The best revenge is living well without you.