“When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever” PeopleWorldBelieveStillsDreamFallInterestBornHalfForeverRightsSpecialDyingGreenInnocentArrangementsOur DreamsAssuranceMonstrousQuitter Book:This boy's life Source: This boy's life
“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
“The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.” PeopleWorldWritingMayArtSeemsCareCertainSilenceCasesShareChangedDespairAssumingFinalsStorytellingOptimisticTouchedOur WorldPessimismSymptomsOutlookSustainingAffirming Author:Tobias Wolff
“One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.” WorldLittlesWould BeCoursesImagineChessEssays Book:Old School Source: Old School
“You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.” PeopleWorldWritingKindStoriesNovelBe KindShort StoryClueDisappointingBest Short Author:Tobias Wolff
