More From Joyce Carol Oates
- "Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
- "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."
- "Yes, I’ve listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. I’ve wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating."
More In Love
- "A woman’s flattery may inflate a man’s head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her."― Helen Rowland
- "I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don’t cry over the one person who doesn’t."― Bill Cosby
- "More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development."― Kofi Annan