Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is … - Joyce Carol Oates

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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Joyce Carol Oates

Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway · April 1, 2008 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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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.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

"And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future."

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. - Joyce Carol Oates

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