Joyce Oates
Joyce Oates
Joyce Carol Oatesis an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them, two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels Black Water, What I Lived For, Blonde, and short story collections The Wheel of...
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When I first began publishing, I was writing short stories and novels about subjects that only men were writing about -- violence and men's lives,
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Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
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Lots of people I was starting to hate who I used to like a lot. But when you like people, you can hurt. I'd made a few mistakes with girl friends, and one or two guys I'd thought were my buddies, and I wouldn't make these mistakes again.
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She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it
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I feel that in my novel I'm trying to re-address that imbalance and allow people to see that Norma Jeane was quite sensitive and intelligent, ... She read a great deal, she tried to write poetry. She was hoping to be a serious actress. But in a sense, it was too late because the American public just wanted the stereotype from her.
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When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
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The Falls ... a story written with Shakespearean proportions, pitting the power of blood ties against the needs of the individual and the larger community.