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Really Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I…
- I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just…
- How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
- It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
- I really love to set things in places that are real to me.
- 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…
- Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
- 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.
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
- 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes…
- I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical…
- I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as…
- My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with…
- People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives,…
- People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them…
- 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…
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which…
- Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is…
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