Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Secret, Done, Emotion

  Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco

• My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Comforting, Wish

• The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Marriage, Wedding, Guarantees

• When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Voice, Emotion

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Imagination, Mind, Emotion

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