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Joyce Carol Oates teacher

Joyce Carol Oates | teacher

As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

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Joyce Carol Oates sports

Joyce Carol Oates | sports

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.

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Joyce Carol Oates religion

Joyce Carol Oates | religion

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

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Joyce Carol Oates religion

Joyce Carol Oates | religion

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

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Joyce Carol Oates poetry

Joyce Carol Oates | poetry

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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Joyce Carol Oates Love

Joyce Carol Oates | love

In love there are two things – bodies and words.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates | imagination

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

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hope Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates | hope

Yes, I’ve listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. I’ve wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

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history Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates | history

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you’re not aware of that when you’re a child, the whole tradition is lost.

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Joyce Carol Oates | history

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

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