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If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away — Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction - so we are told. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

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

She looks like she bathes. Maybe in a tub of puppies' tears, though. - Jayke Wolff — Shawn Keenan

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good. — Nat 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

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that. — Geoffrey Wolff

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

Teenage hormones plus a few hot guys equals Barbie blood bath. — Veronica Wolff

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

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable. — Geoffrey 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

I need to do this, Ronan. I've got nothing to lose."
"I do. — Veronica Wolff

You were banging hard enough to wake the dead."
"And you're lovely enough to rouse them. — Veronica Wolff

I was leaving.
Finally.
For good.
There was only one way I'd ever return to the town of Christmas, Florida, and it involved my dead body. — Veronica Wolff

The faint bruise on the side of her cheek had paled to a sickly yellow.
Imagine that. She'd fallen in the shower. Again.
Just ask Daddy. — Veronica Wolff

It tugs at something deep inside me, makes me wonder, when I never wonder. Makes me want, when I never want. — Tracy Wolff

answered the phone: "My — Geoffrey Wolff

Stand warned, lovelies. Initiates are encouraged to teach you cruelty. An you should thank them for it. For to understand cruelty is to know strength. — Veronica Wolff

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years. — Nat Wolff

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern. — Nat 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

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

And at this point, spacey didn't even begin to describe it - she was catatonic without the commitment. — Mishna Wolff

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

I'm a huge Nirvana fan. — Nat Wolff

I dance to the steps of life, Each step bringing, A new beginning, To the brightness of my day! — Linda J. Wolff

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

I didn't trust such general greatness one little bit. — Veronica Wolff

To the celestial Rose, who drew me into her lovely orbit. With love and gratitude, Theo. — Isabel Wolff

I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head. — Veronica Wolff

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 160 million years. — Wolff, Becky

Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed! — Emma Richler

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish. — Patrick Wolff

Why don't you just put me down for a couple of boxes of cookies and go earn your next patch bothering someone else." - Jayke Wolff — Shawn Keenan

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius. — John Madden

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

Aye, it's true. I've spent long years seeking a wee dove to adore. But not because I wished for one to tend. I've wanted one with whom I could soar. — Veronica Wolff

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently. — Nat 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

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles. — Nat Wolff

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot. — Nat Wolff

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it. — Nat Wolff

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

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love. — Geoffrey Wolff

When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome. — Nat Wolff

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

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

I dare to dream a dream, for tomorrow I shall make it my reality! — Linda J. Wolff

Waldemar Haffkine [is] a saviour of humanity. — Joseph Lister

Imagine! How the world has changed in only twenty years! Only evil stays the same, year after year. — Kaimana Wolff

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

I was once a man. As not all men are good, not all vampires are evil. — Veronica Wolff

I sure would like to get kissed.
How would that feel on my mouth,
How different would I be after,
a changed climate down in my insides? — Virginia Euwer 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

How good the past can look from a rest stop in a bitter future! — Kaimana Wolff

Yes, in the feverish dance of dust, she thinks, there is surely a speck of Zachariah. Even in his absence, in so many ways, he is so very much here. — Emma Richler

Lines don't make a beautiful woman less beautiful. — Isabel Wolff

Them's wolves, not girls. — Veronica Wolff

There's ALWAYS a way to fix something. — Steven Wolff

Lines don't make beautiful women less beautiful — Isabel Wolff

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

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored. — Nat Wolff

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails. — Nat Wolff

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy. — Nat Wolff

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me. — Nat 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

His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to have sex at any moment. — Veronica Wolff

Chess is for everybody. — Patrick Wolff

I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher. — Veronica Wolff

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

Everything is connected,' stated Rachel. 'Patterns everywhere. — Emma Richler

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

Here's the important lesson in electronic journalism: it's not the literary value of the words - it's the tone of the sportscaster's voice — Bob Wolff

I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection. — Jana 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

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? — Richard D. Wolff

No cheap tricks. — Geoffrey Wolff

You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you? — Virginia Euwer Wolff

Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name. — Nat Wolff

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

For every tear drop you cry, I will turn them into rainbows... So the world can see you for who you really are and that is a beautiful star! — Linda J. Wolff

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth. — Richard D. Wolff

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

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want. — Patrick Wolff

The world doesn't revolve around you, Drew."
"Well, my world does. — Veronica 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