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 More Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates More Quotes From Joyce Carol Oates The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating. Joyce Carol Oates pages technique art I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. Joyce Carol Oates consistency writing morning I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. Joyce Carol Oates eat-your-heart knows heart Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented. Joyce Carol Oates culinary cooking food Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. Joyce Carol Oates discourse prose might And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality. Joyce Carol Oates causality rushing art Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable. Joyce Carol Oates ostracism generations art Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. Joyce Carol Oates princeton professors students Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write. Joyce Carol Oates periods writing people I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. Joyce Carol Oates sympathetic Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. Joyce Carol Oates love-or-hate powerful hate Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. Joyce Carol Oates indescribable conviction love-is I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. Joyce Carol Oates writing way school The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction. Joyce Carol Oates done people fiction The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. Joyce Carol Oates complacency self life To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. Joyce Carol Oates tradition lost children One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. Joyce Carol Oates has-beens writing lost Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time? Joyce Carol Oates rising experience needs Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists. Joyce Carol Oates mysterious historical art The quiet people just do their work. Joyce Carol Oates quiet-people routine people
