Desperation Quotes by Laura Z. Hobson

“He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine,…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

— Laura Z. Hobson

“They had known it, the patient, stubborn men who for years had argued and written and rephrased and fought over the Constitution and the…

— Laura Z. Hobson

We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The…

— Laura Z. Hobson

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

— Laura Z. Hobson

Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you…

— Laura Z. Hobson

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

— Laura Z. Hobson

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.

— Laura Z. Hobson

“When he’d wanted to find out about a scared guy in a jalopy with his whole family behind him hoping for a living in…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“THE CITY WAS ASLEEP. New York, the nervous, keyed-up city, was almost at rest two hours past midnight. Watching the sleeping stone under the…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

— Laura Z. Hobson