“What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.” PeopleWritingStoriesStruggleImagineBurden Author:Tobias Wolff
“Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.” GivingReasonDesirePurposeFoundPrinciplesStruggleAppearance Author:Tobias Wolff
“You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.” WorldCertainFeltBoysStruggleDepthEaseAssuranceInnateReservedPlaces In The WorldAffable Book:Old School Source: Old School