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Tobias Wolff quotes

American Writer June 19, 1945

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Tobias Wolff quote: "Work for most people is really very social, and the actual..."
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "Like so many writers I started writing stories because I..."
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I..."
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. Tobias Wolff
Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say,..."
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. Tobias Wolff
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it. Tobias Wolff
I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they’re the burden and bane of this world. Tobias Wolff
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 keep you alert and restless. Tobias Wolff
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
You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who..."
Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "He did not remember when everything began to remind him of..."
He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. Tobias Wolff
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 done that you do not want to do again. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and..."
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff quote: "I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would..."
I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary. Tobias Wolff

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