"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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Parenting
More From Tobias Wolff
- "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."
- "Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."
More In Parenting
- "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."― Doug Larson
- "My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity."― Roberto Benigni
- "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process."― John F. Kennedy