American - Novelist | June 16, 1938 -
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
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Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
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Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
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I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
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I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
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I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
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I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.
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A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.
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No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
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