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Had Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- 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…
- As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to…
- Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary…
- Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them.…
- When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought…
- When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke,…
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