"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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“I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.”
“I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.”
“Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
“I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.”
“Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.”
“He is a legend and he's going to be remembered for a long time. Just to play alongside him and learn from him has been an absolute pleasure. I think he is a footballer's footballer; he has been at this level for so long. As long as he is part of us we always feel we have a chance. We appreciate the way he goes about his business. I have never met a character like Scholesy, certainly not someone who is that good.”
“My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.”
“You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.”

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