American Quote by Tobias Wolff Download Open image “The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.” — Tobias Wolff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American American Form Hand Other Perfect Perfect American Short Short story Story Writer
It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out of the… — David Means Copy Share Image
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
“To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means 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… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
