Quotes by : Tobias Wolff

And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.....

Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already....

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

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

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

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own....

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

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.

The human heart is a dark forest