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And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Rushing, Causality

Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.154, Zondervan

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Pain, Reading

Joyce Carol Oates (1983). “The profane art: essays and reviews”, Dutton Adult

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Exercise, Play

Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.39, Zondervan

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Joyce Carol Oates

Dream, Art, Disappointment

Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Interviews, Lively

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Self, Practice

Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Writing, Simple

"Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.