"Reasons always came with a purpose, to give……" — Tobias Wolff
"Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have."
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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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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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