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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
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
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 upbeing realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — 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
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
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
— 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
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
