American - Writer | June 19, 1945 -
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
Tobias Wolff
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
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You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
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That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
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One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
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I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
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Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
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Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
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