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It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Every scar in my face is worth it.
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Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
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It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
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The regional voice is the universal voice.
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Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.
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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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I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.
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