I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American. Laura Z. Hobson More Quotes by Laura Z. Hobson More Quotes From 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 first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions. Laura Z. Hobson differences feel-better blessed Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing. Laura Z. Hobson agony writing I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more. 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 sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with. Laura Z. Hobson childhood cutting writing 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 damage parent children 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 for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting. Laura Z. Hobson mother inspiring jobs I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family. Laura Z. Hobson agnostic broads grew-up
