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I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.

From Joyce Carol Oates

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

From Joyce Carol Oates

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.

From Joyce Carol Oates

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

From Joyce Carol Oates

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

From Joyce Carol Oates

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

From Joyce Carol Oates

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

From Joyce Carol Oates

I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about.

From Joyce Carol Oates

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

From Joyce Carol Oates

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

From Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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