"The reader really has to step up to……" — Tobias Wolff

"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."

— 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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More Plate Quotes

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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is… — Erykah Badu
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. — Dave Barry
Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses. — Mario Batali
I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs… — Kristen Bell
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. — Yogi Berra
What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies… — Anthony Bourdain
My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something… — Jason Aldean
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back. — Jackie Chan
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. — Julia Child
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is… — Woody Allen
He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate. — Ron Atkinson
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith

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