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Author - Joyce Carol Oates
Quotes by : Joyce Carol Oates
writing
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams.....
Woods
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone,....
biography
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness....
love
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
biography
The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the....
sun
The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring....
romance
Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life
author quotes
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines....
family
For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated....
this
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred....
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