Joyce Carol Oates
Quotations
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“As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“In love there are two things – bodies and words.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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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.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“Yes, I’ve listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. I’ve wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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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.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one’s willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. – Joyce Carol Oates
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