That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an ide… - Joyce Carol Oates

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That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

Joyce Carol Oates

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About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author who has published 58 novels, plays and novellas, as well as volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction.

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Pen Names: Rosamond Smith • Lauren Kelly

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HUSBAND: Is something wrong?
BETHIE: Why — why do you ask?
HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.

I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort.

Memory blurs, that’s the point. If memory didn’t blur you wouldn’t have the fool’s courage to do things again, again, again that tear you apart.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. - Joyce Carol Oates

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