Books Quote by Tobias Wolff

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

— Tobias Wolff

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to…

— Tobias Wolff

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good…

— Tobias Wolff

“But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark…

— Tobias Wolff

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

— Tobias Wolff

“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.”

— Tobias Wolff

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

— Tobias Wolff

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

— Tobias Wolff

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

— Tobias Wolff

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live…

— Tobias Wolff

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

— Tobias Wolff

“Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.”

— Tobias Wolff