Only When You Have Completed A Novel,

Yet I Will Make You All Love Me And I Will Punish Myself To Spite Your Love.

I Don't Think That Any 'ism' Is Higher Than Literature Or Art. So I'm A Formalist. I Greatly Honor And Respect The Form Of A Work.

I Don't Teach Literature From My Perspective As 'joyce Carol Oates.' I Try To Teach Fiction From The Perspective Of Each Writer. If I'm Teaching A Story By Hemingway, My Endeavor Is To Present The Story That Hemingway Wrote In Its Fullest Realization.

Only In Love Is There Trust - Even The Possibility Of Trust.

In Love There Are Two Things - Bodies And Words.