Quotes by Tobias Wolff

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the...

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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to...

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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during...

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I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as...

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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really...

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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it...

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But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to...

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Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition...

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Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and...

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Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and...

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And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who...

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