Chuck

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.”
― Don DeLillo

“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“But no, we who putter out slowly with strength and courage won’t find our names engraved on any bronze plaque. They won’t chisel our names into any monumental slab of granite.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
― Jim Morrison