Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Freedom, Writing, Men

• I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Live Life, Grandparent, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

• Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Students, Professors, Princeton

• My students often say, "My roommate read this story and really liked it", and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, "well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something."

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Love You, Teaching, People

  "The grandmother of invention". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

• It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Secret, Students, Embarrassing

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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