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Begin Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
- When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel…
- Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
- I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the…
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