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I never change, I simply become more myself.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.
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She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
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A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
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The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.
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I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.
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When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
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Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
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Writing is the most solitary of arts.
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As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.
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I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
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My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.
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'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
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The quiet people just do their work.
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Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
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In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted.
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