The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
"Debut short story collection:" By the North Gate (1963)
"Debut novel:" With Shuddering Fall (1964)
"Debut poetry collection:" Anonymous Sins and Other Poems (1969)
"Debut play:" Miracle Play (1974)
/ influences = Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Faulkner, H.P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Desmond Hogan, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe
/ influenced = Chris Bohjalian, Jonathan Safran Foer, Shannon Bramer, Brandon M. Stickney
/ awards = 1967 O. Henry Award
1973 O. Henry Award
1970 National Book Award
2010 National Humanities Medal
2012 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
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/spouse=Raymond J. Smith
(1961–2008; his death)Charles Gross (2009–present)
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If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Joyce Carol Oates on Wikipedia.If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
In love there are things -- bodies and words.
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