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The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
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I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
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Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.
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Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
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At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
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The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
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What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.
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At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.
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When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.
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If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.
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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 never change, I simply become more myself.
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... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
Joyce Carol Oates
Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
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