Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
Tobias WolffYou boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.
Tobias WolffThere are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
Tobias WolffMemory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
Tobias Wolff