Author: Tobias Wolff

Quotes

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

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

- Tobias Wolff

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

- Tobias Wolff

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.

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

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

- Tobias Wolff

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.

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

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

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

- Tobias Wolff

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.

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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