Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
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Famous Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
“Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”
“Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”
Source: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.”
“Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.”