Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.

Tom Barbash's Popular Quotes

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.

- Tom Barbash

I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character and asked them, "Wh…

- Tom Barbash

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

- Tom Barbash

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

- Tom Barbash

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

- Tom Barbash

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

- Tom Barbash

When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes y…

- Tom Barbash

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

- Tom Barbash

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

- Tom Barbash