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
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Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.
Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.