Modern Writers Quotes

“The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

“Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Just a penis with a thesaurus”
― anonymous reader on Updike, David Foster Wallace