Tobias Wolff Quotes

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Tobias Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 19, 1945

Topics

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I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

John Marshall

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My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

Merton Miller

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'Longtime Companion' was really the first movie that I know of that addressed the problem of AIDS. This was back in the '80s that we did this.

Tony Shalhoub

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In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Roger Stone

BusinessYouPayYourFinished

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

Rod Stewart

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There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

Roz Chast

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I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

Mary Frann

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I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.

Mike Wallace

ReadingHellNewsReporterRead

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

Mitchell Baker

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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

Djuna Barnes

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I want to be a professional wakeboarder.

Donald Cerrone

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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Clive Barker

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