Books Quote by Tom Hanks

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

— Dave Eggers

“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent on some…

— Nicholson Baker

“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living alone, working…

— Patricia Duncker

“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world of your…

— Stewart Stafford

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the…

— Kathleen Norris

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

“People think loneliness is absence. It isn't. It's a filling up, a rising, spilling tide that crashes into every gully and chasm of your…

— Sheila Turner Johnston

One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples…

— Thomas L. Dumm

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

— Jerzy Kosinski

“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in…

— Adam Bagdasarian

Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to share our…

— Marc Gafni