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Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.
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Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
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When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?
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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
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Death is just the last scene of the last act.
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America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.
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Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
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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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To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.
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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
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I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.
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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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I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.
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The quiet people just do their work.
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The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
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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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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
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