We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

- Tobias Wolff

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must ma…

- Tobias Wolff

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

- Tobias Wolff

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

- Tobias Wolff

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

- Tobias Wolff

The human heart is a dark forest.

- Tobias Wolff

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

- Tobias Wolff

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

- Tobias Wolff

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carryin…

- Tobias Wolff