I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too,… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
I have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers, with just my law clerks, in isolation. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
I always tend to gravitate toward the idea of things being human: that this isolation I feel as an Asian American, even… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Where had they learned to converse and to dance? I couldn't converse or dance. Everybody knew something I didn't know. The girls… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
My starting point is that I've been a minority in this country for my whole life. I have understood that you have… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
