Family Quote by David Levithan

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a…

— Brenda Walker

“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are…

— Hubert Selby Jr

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

“On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness of soul,…

— Frederick Vanderbuilt

“We are always alone. We are never alone. Even in the center of a crowd of friends , we cannot escape our apartness; even…

— L.M. Schulman

“Some people’s lives are so full of family and friends, and others walk through life alone.”

— Robert Bryndza

“You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and…

— Julie Klam

“That is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from anyone. You…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds…

— Walter Moers