36 ordspråk av Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates föddes den 16 juni 1938 - twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, b.
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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.

Forfatter

In love there are two things - bodies and words

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

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck

Hell og uhell

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

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.

Mat

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Virkelighet

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

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Poesi

Lots of people I was starting to hate who I used to like a lot. But when you like people, you can hurt. I'd made a few mistakes with girl friends, and one or two guys I'd thought were my buddies, and I wouldn't make these mistakes again.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Självuppfattning

She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it

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