Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. – Tobias Wolff
I teach one semester a year, and this year Im 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. – Tobias Wolff
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
When I was a kid I didnt feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldnt say it, but, I didnt think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didnt think anything was funny. I couldnt laugh. – Courteney Cox