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Tobias Wolff quotes about people

American Writer June 19, 1945

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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels. Tobias Wolff
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
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a... Tobias Wolff
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
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
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 people who told stories all the time. Tobias Wolff
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 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
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: "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
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

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