American - Novelist | June 16, 1938 -
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
Joyce Carol Oates
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My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
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I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
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I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.
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I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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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.
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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