Geoffrey Wolff > Quotes

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“No cheap tricks.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“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.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.”
― 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.”
― Geoffrey Wolff, A Day at the Beach: Recollections

“As I liked him less and less I became more and more like him. I felt trapped, didn't care for myself.”
― Geoffrey Wolff, The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father

“answered the phone: “My”
― Geoffrey Wolff, Duke of Deception

“John said: “Your father is dead.” And I said: “Thank God.” John”
― Geoffrey Wolff, Duke of Deception