Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Long, Stories

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

• When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Lying, Giving

• Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Language, Cases

  Joyce Carol Oates (1993). “Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang”, E P Dutton

• Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Mean, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (1992). “The Oxford Book of American Short Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

• By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Writing, Able

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