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Tobias Wolff Facts
Tobias Wolff Is Born On June 19, 1945
Tobias Wolff Zodiac Sign Is Gemini
Tobias Wolff Zodiac Symbol Is Twins
Tobias Wolff Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Wood
Tobias Wolff Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Rooster
Tobias Wolff Occupation Is Writer
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Tobias Wolff Quotes
A novel invites digression and a little relaxation of the grip because a reader cant endure being held that tightly in hand for so long a time. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
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 writers. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
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 certain people on certain occasions. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Because I dont have to be careful of peoples feelings when I teach literature, and I do when Im teaching writing. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Because the more you write the more youre aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
But a lot of writers - and Im one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but its a goad and does keep you alert and restless. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
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 poetry than to novels. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
I have to be honest, of course, but I have to be sure that my honesty comes in a form that is not destructive because it can very easily become so. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
I teach one semester a year, and this year Im just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Im very conscious of working from memory but I also know that someone else who was there at the same moment would write something different about it. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Its probably why Im a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didnt have much time for anything else. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Of course its why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
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 cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
So youre continually searching for new ways of using the story form to most perfectly contain and express the story youre telling. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writers commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when theyve finished the program. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Theres a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
We are made to persist. Thats how we find out who we are. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
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. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
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