Joyce Carol Oates's Quotes

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As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just...

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more...

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers...

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the...

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really,...

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet...

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when...

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused....

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy...

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not...

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

As a teacher at Princeton I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just...

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more...

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