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Tobias Wolff

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

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These are some quotes by American author Tobias Wolff Writer, who was born on June 19, 1945.

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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

Tobias Wolff

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But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

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.

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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Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.

Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.

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We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Davy Jones

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It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.

Tim Pratt

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