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...
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.