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I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: travel, world, people, experience

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I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: like, feel, failure, life
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: inspirational, hope
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: husband, will, feel, you
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: things, fall, humor, you
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: emotions, voice, poetry, you
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