"Work for most people is really very social,……" — Tobias Wolff
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
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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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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
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