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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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