The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Nadine Gordimer
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  2. Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away.. and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.. be happy about your growth, in... - Rainer Maria Rilke

  3. But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. - Bell Hooks

  4. Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

  5. I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful – only then do... - Fernando Pessoa

More Quotes By Nadine Gordimer
  1. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  2. Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

  3. What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling...

  4. Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  5. Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Related Topics