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
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
I love insult, it's always honest.
Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience.
Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.
Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.
Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.