Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, World

  Joyce Carol Oates (1990). “I Lock My Door Upon Myself”, New York : Ecco Press

• The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Eye, Loss, Color

  "You Must Remember This". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

• The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spiritual, Reading, Eye

  Tavis Smiley interview, PBS, June 28, 2005.

• Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Eye, Bridges, Crosses

• The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel”, p.52, Harper Collins

• Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Eye, Mind, Imagine

• What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Eye, Sight

• Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spring, Character, Eye

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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