And you can tell the writers who do it – Robert …– Tobias Wolff
And you can tell the writers who do it – Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about …– Tobias Wolff
I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
But a lot of writers – and I’m one of them – do …– Tobias Wolff
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.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a …– Tobias Wolff
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
Like so many writers I started writing stories …– Tobias Wolff
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn’t have much time for anything else.
But as my brother was doing his research for a …– Tobias Wolff
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.