I don’t think I’m morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn’t appeal to me, and I don’t read it. I think I’m a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history. — Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates : American Novelist
Born: June 16, 1938
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy wi…
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to …
I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve alw…
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I alw…
I wouldn’t encourage new writers to start off publishing thr…
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although…
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy wi…
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to …
I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve alw…
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I alw…
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our…
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civil…
I wouldn’t encourage new writers to start off publishing thr…
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their…
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although…
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could ac…
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I alw…
You always see people coming back to the sport, and I’ve alw…
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I alw…
If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop alw…
I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage…
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it i…
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I’ve alw…
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I alw…
I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He alw…
My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I alw…
