More From Joyce Carol Oates
- "It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence."
- "Anyone who teaches knows that you don’t really experience a text until you’ve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class."
- "If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
More In Sports
- "Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick."― George Leonard
- "That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl."― John Madden
- "Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids."― Jim Sensenbrenner