Quotes by : Tobias Wolff

Say you've just read Faulkner's 'Barn Burning'. Like the son in the story, you've sensed the faults in....

In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don't....

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your....

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led....

I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died....

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that....

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day....

In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come....

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing....

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