Quotes by : Joyce Carol Oates

...we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expecting....

The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.But....

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone,....

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened,....

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin....

... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't....

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

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's....

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