Joyce Carol Oates

In love there are two things – bodies and words…

Anyone who teaches knows that you don’t really experience a text until you’ve taught it…

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a…

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food…

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously…

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no…

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one’s willingness to be alone for…

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind…

As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just…

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for…

Yes, I’ve listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. I’ve…

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater…

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you’re not…