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Novelist, short story writer and essayist
United States · b. 1938
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who published her first book in 1963 and has since produced dozens of novels, plays, story collections and volumes of criticism. She taught creative writing at Princeton University for more than three decades.
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And so I finally felt that I’d given up. ... And towards the morning, I started thinking, “Well, failure is actually what most people experience in boxing.” ... And I found a way to write about the whole sport by way of beginning with failure, with the image of failure.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 20 May 1997 source ↗
I’ve turned down opportunities constantly. I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 20 May 1997 source ↗
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