Book Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

— Rebecca Solnit

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be…

— Nicky Wire

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might…

— Cornelia Funke

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

In the end all books are written for your friends.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I…

— Katherine Paterson

I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that…

— Stefan Merrill Block

I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over…

— Patrick Rothfuss