This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
Joyce Carol OatesThe ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Joyce Carol OatesBefore you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
Joyce Carol Oates