Laura Z. Hobson quotes

“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

Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.310, Open Road Media

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“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

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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?”
-- Laura Z. Hobson

Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Consenting Adult”, p.80, Open Road Media

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“Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.”
-- Laura Z. Hobson

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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 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

Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.106, Open Road Media

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“I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.”
-- Laura Z. Hobson

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“I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.”
-- Laura Z. Hobson

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“Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.”

“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

“Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.”

“I feel betrayed by own mother.”

“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”

“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”

“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”