Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Challenges, Moral, Idiot

• We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Emotional, Challenges, World

  Joyce Carol Oates (1981). “Contraries”, New York : Oxford University Press

• I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Dark, Challenges

• Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Challenges

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

• It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Challenges, Finals

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

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