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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- 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