Quotes by : Joyce Carol Oates

You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children....

There’s a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It’s a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning....

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are....

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works....

A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom....

She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him,....

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the....

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving....

My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives.....

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently....