Joyce Carol Oates Quote

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.


New York Times (July 27, 1980)


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 —...

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 —...

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 —...

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 —...