Tobias Wolff Quotes

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

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

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

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.