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.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

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

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

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

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

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

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

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

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

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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

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

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

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

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

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman,...

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman,...

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see...

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see...