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The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
newyorker.com
alina stefanescu, writer
alinastefanescuwriter.com
“The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people.” Joyce Carol Oates
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Do you find emotional stability is necessary in order to write? Or can you get to work whatever your state of mind? Is your mood reflected in what you write? How do you describe that perfect state in which you can write from early morning into the afternoon?OATES:
One must be pitiless about this matter of “mood.” In a sense, the writing
Miss Clarvoe hung up. She knew how to deal with June and others like her. One hung up. One severed connections. What Miss Clarvoe did not realize was that she had severed too many connections in her life, she had hung up too often, too easily, on too many people. Now, at thirty, she was alone. The telephone no longer rang, and when someone knocked
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