Joyce Carol Oates

I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I consider tragedy the highest form of art. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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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 get books repaired. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I really love to set things in places that are real to me. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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