Affection Quote by Tom Lehrer

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and…

— Tom Lehrer

“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. This act, the act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that…

— Stefan Merrill Block

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations,…

— Emma Donoghue

There is something cleansing to me about exploring characters who are really in their darkness, because we don't do it out in the open.…

— Naomi Ackie

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really…

— Donald Miller

I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way.…

— Sheila Heti

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the…

— Salman Rushdie

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

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

— Daniel Handler