The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I… — Rheta Grimsley Johnson Copy Share Image
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self. — Barbara Ascher Copy Share Image
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest.… — Mary Lawson Copy Share Image
