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Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to…
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the…
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Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
— Salvador de Madariaga
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Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.
— Unknown Author
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A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills…
— Randy Wayne White
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The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them.…
— Isobelle Carmody
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It's easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered…
— Oswald Chambers
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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone…
— Truman Capote
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But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little…
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My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
— Don Imus
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