Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.
Joyce Carol OatesPrinceton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.
Joyce Carol OatesTo the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.
Joyce Carol Oates