![If I'm required to identify myself on a form, I write "teacher.” I've been a teacher almost as long as I've been writing. [Pause. ] I think of myself less as a writer than as a person who writes - or tries to. Each morning is a kind of obstacle course in which the obstacles seem to have all the advantage. (Joyce Carol Oates)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/93/joyce-carol-oates-advantage-308593.webp)
If I'm required to identify myself on a form, I write "teacher.” I've been a teacher almost as long as I've been writing. [Pause. ] I think of myself less as a writer than as a person who writes - or tries to. Each morning is a kind of obstacle course in which the obstacles seem to have all the advantage.
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