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
All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
The despairing soul is a rebel.
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
I love insult, it's always honest.
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.