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Famous Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
“The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.”
“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”
“I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.”
“It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.”
“To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.”
“Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.”
“The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.”
“Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.”
“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.”
“The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.”
“The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".”