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 art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
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.
My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.
There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.
I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.