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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
- Tobias Wolff
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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
- Tobias Wolff
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Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
- Tobias Wolff
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Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
- Tobias Wolff
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I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
- Tobias Wolff
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One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
- Tobias Wolff
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You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
- Tobias Wolff
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
- Tobias Wolff
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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
- Tobias Wolff
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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
- Tobias Wolff
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That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
- Tobias Wolff
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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
- Tobias Wolff
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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
- Tobias Wolff
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Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
- Tobias Wolff
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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
- Tobias Wolff
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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 Wolff
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