Tobias Wolff

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#trial #trials

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#life

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

— Tobias Wolff

#life #writing #change

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

— Tobias Wolff

#epitaph #humor #irony #death

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

— Tobias Wolff

#first #order #pulling #really #short

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #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

#because #careful #feelings #i #i do

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

— Tobias Wolff

#because #else #i #like #many

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

#dissatisfied #does #feel #goad #hard

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

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative