Quotes by : Joyce Carol Oates

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

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just....

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be....

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share....

When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think....

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

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write....

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

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred....