Psychology Quote by Austin Wright

“It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“It was one way she had found to fill her solitary childhood, but it was more than that; the act of creation gave substance…

— Cathy Holton

“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last knitting together.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great…

— Susan Power

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire…

— Virginia Woolf

“There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not…

— Edith Wharton

“She has some very interesting ways of thinking about things. I wonder in what kind of environment she built that kind of worldview? Is…

— Minari Endou

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay