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It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like faulkner, joyce, kafka, mann, woolf, james - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.
-Joyce Carol Oates
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It's Impossible To Read A Distinctive Stylist

Joyce Carol Oates
It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like faulkner, joyce, kafka, mann, woolf, james - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.
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