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Things Quotes by Tobias Wolff
- The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that…
- I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well,…
- There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
- 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…
- In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and…
- 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…
- One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle