You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
“But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
“Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
