The Faith of a Writer Quotes

“The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

“Young or beginning writers must be urged to read widely, ceaselessly, both classics and contemporaries, for without an immersion in the history of the craft, one is doomed to remain an amateur: an individual for whom enthusiasm is ninety-nine percent of the creative effort.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art