Book Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image “Books are solitudes in which we meet.” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Solitude
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There was a Wonderful Friend whom i meet when ever in solitude.. He gives me solace & Fun. People call them Books.” — Lowplex Copy Share Image
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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