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Old School Tobias Wolffobias Wolff Quotes & Sayings
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I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
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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.
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
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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.
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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
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That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
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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.
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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
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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.
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Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
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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.
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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
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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
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And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
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