Writers Quotes by Tom Barbash

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

— Tom Barbash

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

— Tom Barbash

My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be…

— Tom Barbash

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew…

— Tom Barbash

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

— Tom Barbash

I went back into the older stories and reworked them, because I became a better writer over the years and could spot flaws. I…

— Tom Barbash

I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try…

— Tom Barbash

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.

— Tom Barbash

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

— Tom Barbash

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

— Tom Barbash

I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character and asked…

— Tom Barbash

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great…

— Tom Barbash

I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.

— Tom Barbash

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us…

— Tom Barbash