Joyce Carol Oates (brief 2013 video): Esteemed fiction writer and university professor says, “I’m not sure that I really have a personality”

Oates is referring to her regular, social personality, as seen by her husband and others. She says that what they see is just a facade, a host personality, which is gone when she is not with them.

But she either does not entirely recall, or chooses not to say, exactly what or who becomes apparent when she is alone, except that it has to do with the inner world of her creative mind, which is what she most enjoys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnROS8bcTI

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