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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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“Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.”
— 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 food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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“To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.”
— 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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“Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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“Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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“I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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“Boxing has become America's tragic theater.”
— 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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“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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