Books Quote by Jack Driscoll Download Open image “If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.” — Jack Driscoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Forget Loneliness Lonely Writing
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros 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
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
If your reading lonely quotes you just might be one of the stupidest person.. I know you might be in mood, but the more… — Just Me Copy Share Image
Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually transpires as… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I can't really recreate or reconstruct exactly how or from where any of my characters originate, young or old, though chances are at least… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories. I sometimes… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I am by nature not a list-keeper, but I do keep lists of names and add at least one or two every single day… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
