Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Civilization, Literature

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Expensive People”, p.72, Modern Library

• I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Children, Powerful

• I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Thinking, Honor And Respect

• The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Literature, Morality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Awards

• I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teaching, Perspective, Trying

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