--- title: "1 Past Midnight Quotes By Laura Z. Hobson" description: "1 Past Midnight quotes by Laura Z. Hobson. Plus more from Laura Z. Hobson and more Past Midnight sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/laura-z-hobson-36106_midnight_the-city-was-asleep-new-york-the-nervous_2568667.jpg" --- > [“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 quiet sky, the mind might know that there were still people laughing in night clubs, trucks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/the-city-was-asleep-new-york-the-nervous-keyed-up-city-was-almost-at/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/laura-z-hobson-36106_midnight_the-city-was-asleep-new-york-the-nervous_2568667.jpg) ## More 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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/he-who-could-write-so-easily-who-could-spend-a-thousand-words-down/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) > [I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/i-grew-up-in-an-agnostic-broad-minded-family/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/they-had-known-it-the-patient-stubborn-men-who-for-years-had-argued/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/we-are-born-in-innocence-corruption-comes-later-the-first-fear-is-a/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/why-didn-t-children-ever-see-that-they-could-damage-and-harm-their/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/any-life-he-d-ever-heard-of-his-own-included-was-burdened-with/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) > [Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/writers-talk-about-the-agony-of-writing-i-talk-about-the-agony-of-not/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) > [I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/i-rewrite-everything-almost-idiotically-i-rewrite-and-work-and-work/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/when-he-d-wanted-to-find-out-about-a-scared-guy-in-a-jalopy-with-his/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/i-ve-told-youngsters-not-to-write-their-autobiographical-novel-at-the/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/the-city-was-asleep-new-york-the-nervous-keyed-up-city-was-almost-at/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) > [I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/i-think-of-myself-as-a-plain-human-being-who-happens-to-be-an-american/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) > [“Slow and unarguable, the old desire for love, for a close-shared life, struck at him, not with Kathy, not with Anne, not with any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-z-hobson/slow-and-unarguable-the-old-desire-for-love-for-a-close-shared-life/) [Laura Z. Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-z-hobson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/past-midnight/laura-z-hobson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Past Midnight Quotes By Laura Z. Hobson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“THE CITY WAS ASLEEP. New York, the nervous, keyed-up city, was almost at rest two hours past midnight. 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