Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, o... - Joyce Carol Oates
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
More quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
"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."
"Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy."
"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices."
"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst."
"I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart."