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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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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
— Jeff Bezos
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry…
— Unknown Author
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Hemingway was a jerk.
— Harold Robbins
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine…
— Cyril Connolly
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Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
— Todd Snider
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I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader…
— Lee Pace
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can…
— D. J. Enright
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of…
— Edward Abbey
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I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug…
— Mike Tyson
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