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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in…
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No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to…
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Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start…
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I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how…
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If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album...…
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I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.
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