Books Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“—Diary of the Undead”

— J.R. Rain

“The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare…

— Richard Bachman

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

“Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.”

— Ariel Levy

“All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it…

— Mordecai Richler

“I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are…

— Hubert Selby Jr

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander…

— Ray Bradbury

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

“A writer’s silence is the loudest scream; it’s the unwritten chapters of their life that echo in the emptiness of their soul.”

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

“My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves”

— Christopher Poindexter

“A word written that is not read, is lonely and sad.”

— RK Cary