Only where there is life can there be home. - Joyce Carol Oates

" "
Only where there is life can there be home.

Joyce Carol Oates

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

home life best-american-essays essayists joyce-carol-oates the-way-we-lives they-all-just-went-away essays

English

Collect this quote

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author who has published 58 novels, plays and novellas, as well as volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Pen Names: Rosamond Smith • Lauren Kelly

All quotes from Joyce Carol Oates Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Joyce Carol Oates:

Margaret Atwood Milan Kundera Virginia Woolf Isabel Allende Iris Murdoch

Additional quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

If I’m required to identify myself on a form, I write “teacher.” I’ve been a teacher almost as long as I’ve been writing. [Pause.] I think of myself less as a writer than as a person who writes — or tries to. Each morning is a kind of obstacle course in which the obstacles seem to have all the advantage.

Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.