The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Joyce Carol Oates

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The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.

But of course interns are paid, in experience.

Joyce Carol Oates

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This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Warum man schreibt, ist eine Frage die sich der Schriftsteller, völlig versunken in seine Arbeit, nicht stellt. Theorien sind das Gebiet derer, die nicht handeln.

Joyce Carol Oates

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You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!

Joyce Carol Oates


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The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Joyce Carol Oates

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It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

Joyce Carol Oates

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A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

Joyce Carol Oates

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For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary?

Joyce Carol Oates

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The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.

Joyce Carol Oates

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