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Famous Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.”
“Boxing has become America's tragic theater.”
“A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.”
“I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.”
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
“It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.”
“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”
“Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.”
“Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.”
“My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.”
“No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.”
“One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.”
“Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.”
“The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”