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Writer 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…
- 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 recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I…
- There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of…
- When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything…
- Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty…
- That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that…
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