Outsiders Quote by Colin Wilson Download Open image “I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.” — Colin Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Outsiders Writing
I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“As to Gurdjieff's power to renew his own energies, its essence had been understood by psychologists of the nineteenth century, decades before the age… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted… — Luke Perry Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in this Dream… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the… — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere I go.” — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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