Tobias Wolff

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

— Tobias Wolff

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You don't teach information in a writing workshop. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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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

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

— Tobias Wolff

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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

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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

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Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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