"Because the more you write the more you're……" — Tobias Wolff
"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 have already done that you do not want to do again."
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52 Quotes by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site.
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess,…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find…
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