Famous Quotes

"If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account."

V. S. Naipaul on Alone

More quotes about Alone

• "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

  Albert Einstein on Alone

• "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

  Helen Keller on Alone

• "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

  Marilyn Monroe on Alone

• "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

  George Washington on Alone

• "I restore myself when I'm alone."

  Marilyn Monroe on Alone

More quotes by V. S. Naipaul

• "The writer is all alone."

• "What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude."

• "The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."

• "I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing."

• "Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well."