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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
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Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
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I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.
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These are the moments for which we live.
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Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
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Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of communication the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.
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The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
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A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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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.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
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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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...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.
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The despairing soul is a rebel.
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What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.
Joyce Carol Oates
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
Joyce Carol Oates
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, Why are you trying to starve yourself? To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.
Joyce Carol Oates
I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
Joyce Carol Oates
