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Someone Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
- Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
- Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
- You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
- I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,'…
- The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret…
- Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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