Joyce Carol Oates - From the Character category:
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates - From the Communication category:
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates - From the Conviction category:
All of us who write work out of a conviction that we are participating in some sort of communal activity. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates - From the Ego category:
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates - From the Gender category:
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation – but, then I couldn't be myself either. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates - From the Routine category:
The quiet people just do their work. (Joyce Carol Oates)
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