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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
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In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
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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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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
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By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.
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Tragedy is the highest form of art.
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The despairing soul is a rebel.
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When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.
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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
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Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
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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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Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
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Great art is cathartic it is always moral.
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