Books Quote by Tobias Wolff Download Open image “The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.” — Tobias Wolff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Plate Read Reader Really Short Short story Step Story Up
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took… — Melanie Fair Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip onto a… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
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 chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
