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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 27 quotes by Tobias Wolff Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army. He has also written two novels, including The Barracks Thief, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and an array of short stories. Read full biography of Tobias Wolff → 1 2 3 Ctrl → I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late... → 0 When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else. 0 Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. 0 The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. 0 Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. 0 I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to... → 0 It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around... → 0 And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other... → 0 Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for... → 0 Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already... → 0 But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does... → 0 Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and... → 0 Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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