"The very act of writing assumes, to begin……" — Tobias Wolff
"The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act."
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Tobias Wolff
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52 Quotes by Tobias Wolff
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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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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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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
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