Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reality, Ordinary

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

• 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.

• If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reality, Differences, World

• The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reality, Economic, Subtlety

• We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Reality, Profound

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