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.…

- Laura Z. Hobson

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.

- Laura Z. Hobson

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

- Laura Z. Hobson

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

- 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?

- 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 were Jewish, a…

- 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 nuan…

- Laura Z. Hobson

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

- Laura Z. Hobson