Novel Quotes by Laura Z. Hobson

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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 sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth…

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“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, had stumbled like a first-grader over this single paragraph. A dozen times he had begun it and written into it a naked desperation; a dozen times he had begun it and written into it the frosted…

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I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

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

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

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

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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But…

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