Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Race, White

• I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Vanity

  1989 In The Guardian,18 Aug.

• I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Age, Twenties

  "Off the Page: Joyce Carol Oates". The WashingtonPost Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2003.

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