Avid Quote by Edward Hoagland Download Open image “Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.” — Edward Hoagland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avid Columns Loneliness Reader These days
A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the… — Monty Don 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
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent on some… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself... — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke.… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I'm an avid bicyclist, so I catch some sun while I'm out bicycling. — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey -… — Dustin Milligan Copy Share Image
