"The human heart is a dark forest." — Tobias Wolff

"The human heart is a dark forest."

— Tobias Wolff

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52 Quotes by Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy… — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally… — Drew Barrymore
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum

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