Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: writers-on-writing
الوحدة كالتضور جوعًا: لا يمكنك أن تدرك إلى أي مدى أنت جائع حتى تبدأ في الأكل.
Joyce Carol OatesOnly where there is life can there be home.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: life home essays best-american-essays essayists joyce-carol-oates the-way-we-lives they-all-just-went-away
It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
Joyce Carol OatesFor madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: blonde
What is "technique" but the absence of passion?
Joyce Carol OatesRunning! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be.
Joyce Carol OatesThis is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: loss absurd life-and-living grief coping coping-with-death
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: coming-of-age joyce-carol-oates jco
In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: marriage
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