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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.
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The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
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It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
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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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I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
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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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Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
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Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
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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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Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of artists.
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
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God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
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The quiet people just do their work.
Joyce Carol Oates
It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.
Joyce Carol Oates
