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
I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.