Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
Joyce Carol OatesYou need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
Joyce Carol OatesWho is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?
Joyce Carol Oates