816 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

Your punishment if you’re a woman. Not loved enough.

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don’t know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you’ve been told, what the words suggest.

He said no break is permanent. Like a bone that heals crooked, still it will heal.

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

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don’t have to get books repaired.

I love insult, it’s always honest.

But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play?

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted – and didn’t want – it to be.