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Stories Quotes by Tobias Wolff
- Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
- There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
- Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession…
- You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best…
- There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
- One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
- Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
- It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew…
- I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to…
- I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that…
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