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
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
I am more or less reading all the time.
I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not.
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.