Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reality, People

  New York Times, July 27, 1980.

• Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loyalty, Sports, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

• It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, World, Violence

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