Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. - Joyce Carol Oates 2 Share Now -
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. - Joyce Carol Oates 3 Share Now -
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. - Joyce Carol Oates 4 Share Now -
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding. - Joyce Carol Oates 6 Share Now -
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it. - Joyce Carol Oates 7 Share Now -
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. - Joyce Carol Oates 8 Share Now -
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read. - Joyce Carol Oates 9 Share Now -
When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover. - Joyce Carol Oates 10 Share Now -
