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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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

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

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

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 has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

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...

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...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

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...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

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...

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...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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

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