Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, School, Way

• I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girlfriend, School, Thinking

• I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hard Work, School, College

  "America's Foremost Woman of Letters". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

• The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, School

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 23, 2013.

• My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school when they were quite young to work, because there actually was no choice. So they've always impressed me with their resilience, their good spirits, their courage. I just remember them carrying on and just doing their lives. They really made a strong impression on me.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Strong, School, Parent

  "America's Foremost Woman of Letters". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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