Bears Quote by Samuel R. Delany

A public is a necessary fiction.

— Rowan Williams

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where we meet…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live…

— William Golding

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think…

— Elliott Smith

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

— Samuel Johnson

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…

— Paul Bowles

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies…

— Annette Bening

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

— Tom Robbins

“For certainly, at the level of social life, what is called the adjustment of man to his environment takes place through the medium of…

— David DiSalvo

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides