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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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People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I…
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So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -…
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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one…
— Tobias Wolff
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I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined…
— Jessica Chastain
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People would see a lot of times fighting as a ugly thing, as a thing that denigrates the human being. In reality,…
— Renzo Gracie
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be…
— James Franco
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I'm PALE, I wish people would see through my tough facade, I'm always there for ppl even when no one else is…
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I wish people would see what I see and feel what I feel; salvation.
— Natan Quirino
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