816 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

The regional voice is the universal voice.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.