Fears Quote by Tom Wolfe

“It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often…

— Dan Brown

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“I was thrilled by discovery, crushed by disappointment, and mortified by any misplaced enthusiasm. I declared allegiance, took a position, and always had a…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“She felt vulnerable and alone. Once again, she felt that life was not treating her as it treated other people - it gave her…

— Paulo Coelho

“...and in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated all memory,…

— Junot Díaz

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time…

— Philip Pullman

“He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he…

— John Burnside