Quotes By Author: tobias wolff

“Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.”

“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”