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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There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.
When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?
celebrate while you can
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
Acting is the loneliest profession I know.
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
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.