"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
-Joyce Carol Oates
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"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.“
-Joyce Carol Oates
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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
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"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."
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"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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"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
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