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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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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. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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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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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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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. ↗

— 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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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. ↗

— 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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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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