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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
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Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.
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Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
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The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
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I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.
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When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
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Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of form to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.
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I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up.
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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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I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
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Exotic: meaning you're desired. For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
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It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
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