Tobias Wolff

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. [If you become a writer] you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
- Tobias Wolff

A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.
― Tobias Wolff, Old School