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
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.