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Book Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might…
- I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to…
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
- Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still…
- I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also…
- I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that…
- I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first…
- If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including…
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we…
- The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review…
- 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…
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
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- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
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