Book Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “The point of books is to combat loneliness.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Combat Inspirational Loneliness War
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again,… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
