“Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range… — William Golding Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I came to view the world as a word puzzle and, with no special aptitude I can name, fixed on the whys… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“If one has been absent for decades from a place that one once held dear, the wise would generally counsel that one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image