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Top 15 Tom Barbash Quotes (2025 Update)

Tom Barbash Quote: “I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what’s revealed, which makes us dangerous.”

1. “I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what’s revealed, which makes us dangerous.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I think the second, or outsider’s, perspective can come as you layer a story. It’s as though you’ve grabbed a secondary character and asked them, “What do you make of this guy?” and the hope is that the answer surprises you as the writer.”

2. “I think the second, or outsider’s, perspective can come as you layer a story. It’s as though you’ve grabbed a secondary character and asked them, “What do you make of this guy?” and the hope is that the answer surprises you as the writer.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I think one’s person’s unlikeable is another’s lovable.”

3. “I think one’s person’s unlikeable is another’s lovable.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.”

4. “I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.”

5. “I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I think the voice can carry a story.”

6. “I think the voice can carry a story.”

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Tom Barbash Quote: “I’m always relearning things I thought I’d learned for good a while back.”

7. “I’m always relearning things I thought I’d learned for good a while back.”

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Tom Barbash Quote: “I’ll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don’t know when.”

8. “I’ll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don’t know when.”

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Tom Barbash Quote: “My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they’re in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they’re fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.”

9. “My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they’re in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they’re fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I think it’s probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.”

10. “I think it’s probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people.”

11. “I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I’m suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.”

12. “I’m suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.”

13. “I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.”

14. “When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.”

15. “One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.”

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Tom Barbash Quote: “When you teach, it’s sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two – and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.”

16. “When you teach, it’s sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two – and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.”

17. “Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “Of course I’d sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.”

18. “Of course I’d sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.”

— Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash Quote: “Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.”

19. “Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.”

— Tom Barbash

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