Alison Hawthorne Deming Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

• I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Always Trying, Asking, Students

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

• What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Teaching, Writing, Discipline

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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