7 Quotes by Geoffrey Wolff

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]Every writer begins as a subversive, if in nothing more than the antisocial means by which he earns his keep. Finally, every fantasist who cannibalizes himself knows that misfortune is his friend, that grief feeds and sharpens his fancy, that hatred is as sufficient a spur to creation as love (and a world more common) and that without an instinct for lunacy he will come to nothing.

As I liked him less and less I became more and more like him. I felt trapped, didn't care for myself.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.