Tobias Wolff

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

Tobias Wolff

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.

Tobias Wolff

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

Tobias Wolff

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Tobias Wolff

You could say that all my characters are reflections of myself, in that I share their wish to count for something, and their utmost confusion as to how this is supposed to be done.

Tobias Wolff

You don’t teach information in a writing workshop.

Tobias Wolff