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You Quotes by Tobias Wolff
- 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.
- Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the…
- You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
- But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live…
- And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate…
- Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
- Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you…
- 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…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide