In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I... →
John Oates
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to... →
Joyce Carol Oates
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my... →
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope... →
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship'... →
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.