My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana — Joyce Carol Oates
It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are. — Joyce Carol Oates
Exotic: meaning you’re “desired.” For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So — Joyce Carol Oates
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with — Joyce Carol Oates