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Writer Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
- It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with…
- It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation…
- Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking…
- A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
- Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
- No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
- 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 teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching…
- 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…
- 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…
- For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even…
- For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
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