I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm 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 WolffWork for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
Tobias WolffThereโs no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
Tobias WolffTo be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
Tobias WolffKnowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
Tobias Wolff