Joyce Carol Oates Quotes


Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. - Joyce Carol Oates


When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. - Joyce Carol Oates


When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. - Joyce Carol Oates


When I first began publishing, I was writing short stories and novels about subjects that only men were writing about -- violence and men's lives. - Joyce Carol Oates


What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. - Joyce Carol Oates


We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable. - Joyce Carol Oates


We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. - Joyce Carol Oates


To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. - Joyce Carol Oates


The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. - Joyce Carol Oates


The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. - Joyce Carol Oates


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