Sounds good Fred.
I've always liked Oates quote "Our works of art are like communal dreams" which she said in an interview with Diane Rehm, but I'm sure there are plenty more from her fiction and non-fiction.
Eric
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I have recently published The Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press).
This is the first major book of quotations geared to the needs of the modern
reader. Like other standard reference works in the field, it includes the
best-known quotations from older literary and historical sources, but it
emphasizes modern and American materials, fully representing such areas as
popular culture, children's literature, sports, computers, politics, law, and
the social sciences. In The Yale Book of Quotations, readers will find
hundreds of very famous and popular quotations that are omitted form other
quotation dictionaries.
This is also the first quotation book to be compiled using state-of-the-art research methods to seek out quotations and to trace quotation sources to their
true origins or earliest discoverable usages. Essentially, the approach used is
the same as that of historical dictionaries, such as The Oxford English
Dictionary, which try to trace words back to their earliest findable usage.
Thus The Yale Book of Quotations may be viewed as a true historical dictionary
of quotations.
Unfortunately, I only have one quotation from Joyce Carol Oates in the
YBQ. I would welcome suggestions of additional well-known quotations from
Oates for possible use in the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations.
Fred Shapiro
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