Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
—Joyce Carol Oates in Faithless
About Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and...
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