I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.
Joyce Carol OatesWe inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itโs gone โ its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol OatesInsomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.
Joyce Carol OatesTechnique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
Joyce Carol Oates