Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

— Maya Angelou

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things…

— Guy Davenport

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for…

— Wole Soyinka

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

— Tom Barbash

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that…

— Dana Spiotta

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of…

— Gore Vidal

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Teach the writer, not the writing.

— Lucy Calkins

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and…

— Anne Carson