For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Joyce Carol Oates

Tag: power writing



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And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.

Joyce Carol Oates


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Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Joyce Carol Oates


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As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry

Joyce Carol Oates

Tag: librarians dear-husband mistrial



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Oh, we women know things you don't know, you teachers, you readers and writers of books, we are the ones who wait around libraries when it's time to leave, or sit drinking coffee alone in the kitchen; we make crazy plans for marriage but have no man, we dream of stealing men, we are the ones who look slowly around when we get off a bus and can't even find what we are looking for, can't quite remember how we got there, we are always wondering what will come next, what terrible thing will come next. We are the ones who leaf through magazines with colored pictures and spend long heavy hours sunk in our bodies, thinking, remembering, dreaming, waiting for something to come to us and give a shape to so much pain.

Joyce Carol Oates


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Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.

Joyce Carol Oates

Tag: little-bird-of-heaven



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To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.

Joyce Carol Oates

Tag: youth-age



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Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?

Joyce Carol Oates


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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Joyce Carol Oates


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The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

Joyce Carol Oates


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