"Everything has to be pulling weight in a……" — Tobias Wolff
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
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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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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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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
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More First Order Quotes
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are,…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to…
— John C. Maxwell
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Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety…
— Unknown Author
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You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the…
— Unknown Author
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
— Heinz von Foerster
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Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This…
— Karin Slaughter
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Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
— Bob Wise
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and…
— Philip Caputo
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Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will…
— Jay Leno
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order…
— John Foster
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Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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