Famous Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

  • And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it’s inaudible. – Joyce Carol Oates

    And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it’s inaudible.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known. – Joyce Carol Oates

    A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul. – Joyce Carol Oates

    He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • Popular! In America, what else matters? – Joyce Carol Oates

    Popular! In America, what else matters?– Joyce Carol Oates

  • The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. – Joyce Carol Oates

    The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.– 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. – 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.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride. – Joyce Carol Oates

    Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn’t matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. – Joyce Carol Oates

    He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn’t matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art. – Joyce Carol Oates

    Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there’s a reason. There has to be – Joyce Carol Oates

    See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there’s a reason. There has to be– Joyce Carol Oates