Boys Quote by Tobias Wolff

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention…

— Hermann Hesse

“He had thought of childhood as something intimate and pure, inside his home, his family. Instead of that, in Deborah's school he had been…

— Earnest Poole

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire,…

— Hermann Hesse

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

— Christopher Moore

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

— Hermann Hesse

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with…

— Flannery O'Connor

Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire to make…

— Alice Hoffman

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

— John Dryden

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would…

— Kevin Wilson

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant.…

— Robert A. Heinlein