Joyce Carol Oates Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)
Joyce Carol Oates quotes and sayings page 9 (86 year old novelist). Here's quote # 81 through 90 out of the 136 we have for her.
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
“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.”
“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”
“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.”
“Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.”
“I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.”
“I really love to set things in places that are real to me.”
“I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”
“Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.”
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