Outsider Quote by Douglas Kennedy

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“I was the outsider in Fernhall House, but they were all outsiders really. Outside society. Outside time. You hear people say that those in…

— Jonathan Lee

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”

— Stephen J. Day

“The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the…

— Charles Frazier

“Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.”

— V.S. Naipaul

“He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.”

— William Gibson

“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson