EJ Vega > EJ's Quotes

“But literature, the best of it, does not aim to be literature. It wants and strives, beyond that artifact part of itself, to be a true part of the composite human record—that is, not words but a reality.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”
― Joyce Carol Oates