Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Mean

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

• I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Soul, Cards

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The despairing soul is a rebel.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Soul, Rebel, Rebellion

  Joyce Carol Oates (1999). “Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose”, Plume Books

• I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Hopeful, Soul

• We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Roots, Childhood

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