"There are writers who do start doing the……" — Tobias Wolff
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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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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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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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
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Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people…
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a…
— Aaron Siskind
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If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at…
— Robert Reich
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of…
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to…
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines…
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the…
— Bertrand Russell
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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably…
— Aldous Huxley
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Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots…
— C.S. Lewis
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