13,218 books
—
80,482 voters
Elizabeth
https://www.goodreads.com/elithegal
“Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.”
―
―
“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Challenge: 50 Books
— 4302 members
— last activity 2 hours, 26 min ago
This group is for people who want to be challenged to read 50 books in one year. Start the challenge by creating a post with the title of your chall ...more
Elizabeth ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elizabeth ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Elizabeth
Lists liked by Elizabeth
































