More From Joyce Carol Oates
- "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."
- "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."
- "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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