In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
Joyce Carol OatesIn a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted.
Joyce Carol OatesCherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
Joyce Carol OatesI've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.
Joyce Carol Oates