Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming, in thinking not writing.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Tag: Joyce Carol Oates
Quotable 398
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Quotable 104
Technique will hold a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
– Joyce Carol Oates