The Lost Landscape Quotes

“Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age

“I think we are all cats with nine lives, or even more. We must rejoice in our elusive catness.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age

“The writer understands how deeply mysterious the 'familiar' really is. How strangely opaque, what we've seen a thousand times. And how inconsolable a loss, when the taken-for-granted is finally taken from us.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age