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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 do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my…
— David Bowie
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk…
— Carter Burwell
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A woman is subject matter enough.
— Claude Chabrol
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.…
— Leonard Cohen
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter…
— Freeman Patterson
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At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years…
— Henry Cuellar
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The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.
— Nel Noddings
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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
— Ovid
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The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
— Kenneth Koch
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As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with…
— James Whistler
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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the…
— Adam Arkin
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