Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. – 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
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
Womens humor seems to be a little more supportive. Its just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like Im going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys. – Paul Feig