Books Quote by Anna Kavan

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he…

— Robert Goolrick

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged…

— Jack Kerouac

“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they were happy…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a…

— Haruki Murakami

“He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold…

— Sherwood Anderson

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered…

— John Williams

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together…

— Thornton Wilder