On the Prolific writer, Joyce Carol Oates* ~

"Recognition is not a word one would apply to Oates's writing style.  What differentiates her from most other writers of her distinction (and what may be keeping her from having the huge popular readership of, say, Stephen King or Larry McMurtry) is that Oates doesn't have any particular style.  Like some virtuoso coloratura, she changes her voice according to her subject...
"Oates's writing, like her subject matter, is neither predictable nor comforting."

Lawrence Grobel writes, "Oates is a powerful, unflinching writer who isn't afraid to take on the most searing issues, from the rotten morality of our politicians to the self-abortion of one of the "invisible" and powerless people she so often champions."

New York Times Review: "It has been left to Joyce Carol Oates, a writer who seems to know a great deal about the underside of America, to guide us ~ splendidly ~ down dark passages."

"I can't stop taking notes." ~ J.C. Oates

~ Lawrence Grobel, Endangered Species, Writers Talk About Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives, Da Capo Press, 2001.

*Joyce Carol Oates (b. June 16, 1938 - ) American writer.