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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes about Imagination

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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

Joyce Carol Oates
Running, Thinking, Imagination
Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.29, Zondervan

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

Joyce Carol Oates
Writing, Self, Imagination

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Joyce Carol Oates
Imagination, Mind, Emotion

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates
Writing, Imagination, Routine

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

Joyce Carol Oates
Imagination, Childhood, Want
Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.

Joyce Carol Oates
Real, Imagination, World
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