"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul" — Joyce Carole Oat… - Joyce Carol Oates

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul" — Joyce Carole 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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I feel very transparent in myself. I’m more of an observer. I’m interested in what’s going on. I’m not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people — but when I’m not with them I don’t have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water.

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.

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