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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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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
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I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
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So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it.…
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Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
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I think it’s really important, and it’s a lesson I didn’t learn until my late teens: Whatever bands that you love, go…
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may…
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation…
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It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You…
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We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying…
— Mark Batterson
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If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how…
— Jack Handey
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Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor…
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