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Joyce Carol Oates

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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Question In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?

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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