Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are. - Joyce Carol Oates
It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst. - Joyce Carol Oates
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. - Joyce Carol Oates
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. - Joyce Carol Oates
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
I never change, I simply become more myself. - Joyce Carol Oates
I never change, I simply become more myself.
In love there are two things - bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make o… - Joyce Carol Oates
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make o…
There is nothing "ordinary" about reality. - Joyce Carol Oates
There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look. - Joyce Carol Oates
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
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