Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
Tobias Wolff
More from: Tobias Wolff
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started. -
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average. -
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess. -
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job. -
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
More quotes by Tobias Wolff
- Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
- 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.
- 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.