Tobias Wolff Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

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  Order, Insightful, Stories

• You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

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  Writing, People, Best Short

• I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

  Tobias Wolff

  Believe, Writing, Different

• One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

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  Love, Stories, Lasts

• 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.

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  Time, Past, People

• There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Joy, Stories

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