Quotes by : Tobias Wolff

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

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.

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....

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