Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (b 1938) is a US writer, novelist, and essayist. She was winner of National Book Award in 1969 for Them.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Loneliness is dangerous... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

- Shame, The Wheel of Love and Other Stories

• In love there are two things: bodies and words.
• The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

- Do With Me What You Will

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