“"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.” Quote by Joyce Carol Oates
“There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.” SurprisingThrillingUnfoldingMimesis Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.” YearsHumansLongSaidPersonalityYears AgoFascinatedLong AgoHuman Personality Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.” FeelsLossFictionTerrible Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.” WritingFirstsReadingInspiredFirst Love Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.” IfsThinkingWritingReadingWishDullYieldUninspiring Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.” WritingDifferentImpossibleDistinctiveStylistJoyceWoolf Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.” ThinkingMayWould BeTermDramaDramaticEngaged Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.” ArtLanguageFeltProcessPleasureExecutionExquisite Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.” WritingPersonsMightVoice Author:Joyce Carol Oates