Books Quote by Susan Cain

“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected…

— Susan Cain

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

— Anonymous

“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale of the…

— Leon Trotsky

“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as…

— Hal Zina Bennett

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

— Bruce Chatwin

“My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success…

— Michael Chabon

“With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.”

— Alice Kaplan

“A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down in solitude…

— Jarod Kintz

“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.”

— Jack Kerouac

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something…

— Marguerite Duras

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers…

— Lewis Buzbee

“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.”

— Toni Morrison