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Just don't lose the magic. — Tobias Wolff

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends. — Tobias Wolff

The human heart is a dark forest — Tobias Wolff

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

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. — Tobias Wolff

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff

In order for us to live comfortably with ourselves while living on unjust terms with others, we have to tell ourselves a story that makes us innocent. — Tobias Wolff

And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can. — Tobias Wolff

I was a sitting duck myself, and Arthur had a map of my nerves. — Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. — Tobias Wolff

Want! You must want something. What do you want? — Tobias Wolff

I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary. — Tobias Wolff

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. — Tobias Wolff

I was giving up
being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — Tobias Wolff

A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. — Tobias Wolff

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

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness. — Tobias Wolff

... why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry. — Tobias Wolff

Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are. — Tobias Wolff

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. — Tobias Wolff

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. — Tobias Wolff

It takes a childish or corrupt imagination to make symbols of other people. — Tobias Wolff

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it. — Tobias Wolff

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing. — Tobias Wolff

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. — Tobias Wolff

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him. — Tobias Wolff

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form. — Tobias Wolff

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. — Tobias Wolff

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence. — Tobias Wolff

You don't teach information in a writing workshop. — Tobias Wolff

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. — Tobias Wolff

I had no right to see them this way. — Tobias Wolff

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. — Tobias Wolff

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life. — Tobias Wolff