Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Imagination

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.29, Zondervan

• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Feet

  "To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1999.

• For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Self, Imagination

• Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Imagination, Childhood, Want

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Real, Imagination, World

  Source: www.achievement.org

• The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Imagination, Routine

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Imagination, Mind, Emotion

• Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Exercise, Play

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.39, Zondervan

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