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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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Make Earth Day Every Day.” While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis…
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Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is…
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