Complex Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist's way.

— Dominique Crenn

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then…

— Robert O. Paxton

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't…

— Anatole Broyard

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die…

— Robyn Carr

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

— Paulo Coelho

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

— Mathieu Amalric

I write to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance

— Anonymous

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then…

— Gore Vidal

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes…

— Alan Zweibel

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain.…

— George Eliot

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,…

— Paul Auster